Month: January 2013

Species: Malaisia scandens English Name: Strength-vine Chinese Name: 牛筋藤 Family: Moraceae Description: Climbing shrubs, to 4 m tall when free standing, scandent to 9 m. Branchlets brown, cylindric; lenticels white, orbicular. Leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-obovate, 5-12 × 2-4.5 cm, papery, abaxially ± scabrous, adaxially smooth, base rounded to cordate, margin entire or shallowly dentate toward apex, apex…

Species: Ficus virens Ait. var. sublanceolata English Name: Big-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 黃葛樹 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, epiphytic when young, with buttress or prop roots, deciduous or semideciduous. Stipules lanceolate-ovate, to 1 cm, apex acute. Petiole 2-5 cm; leaf blade obovate, narrowly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, 10-20 × 4-7 cm, thinly leathery to thickly papery, not shiny when dry,…

Species: Ficus vasculosa English Name: White Fig Chinese Name: 白肉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, 10-15 m tall, d.b.h. 10-15 cm. Bark gray, smooth. Branchlets grayish brown, smooth. Stipules ovate, ca. 6 mm. Petiole 1-2 cm; leaf blade elliptic to oblong-lanceolate, simple or irregularly lobed, 4-11 × 2-4 cm, leathery, abaxially pale green but yellowish to grayish green when dry,…

Species: Ficus variolosa English Name: Varied-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 變葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs or trees, 3-10 m tall. Bark grayish brown, smooth. Branchlet internodes short. Stipules narrowly triangular, ca. 8 mm. Petiole 6-10 mm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to elliptic-lanceolate, 5-12 × 1.5-4 cm, ± leathery, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse to blunt; basal lateral veins 2,…

Species: Ficus variegata Bl. var. chlorocarpa English Name: Red-stem Fig Chinese Name: 青果榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Wu ZY, Raven PH, Hong DY (eds) (2003). Flora of China, Volume 5: Ulmaceae through Basellaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Bot Garden Press, St. Louis

Species: Ficus tinctoria English Name: Gibbous Fig Chinese Name: 斜葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Trees, small trees, or shrubs, sometimes epiphytic. Bark slightly coarse. Branchlets brown. Stipules subulate-lanceolate, 5-10 mm, thick. Leaves distichous; petiole thick, 8-10 mm; leaf blade elliptic to ovate-elliptic, asymmetric, 3-13 × 2.5-6 cm, larger in juvenile plants, ± leathery to stiffly leathery, abaxially slightly rough, glabrous,…

Species: Ficus superba Miq. var. japonica English Name: Wight’s Fig Chinese Name: 筆管榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Photos used under a Creative Commons license References: – Wu ZY, Raven PH, Hong DY (eds) (2003). Flora of China, Volume 5: Ulmaceae through Basellaceae. Science Press, Beijing, and Missouri Bot Garden Press, St. Louis

Species: Ficus stenophylla English Name: Bamboo-leaved Fig Chinese Name: 竹葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs, 1-3 m tall. Branchlet internodes short, with scattered grayish white bristles. Stipules red, lanceolate, ca. 8 mm, glabrous. Petiole 3-7 mm; leaf blade grayish green to yellow green when dry, linear-lanceolate, lanceolate, or oblanceolate, 5-20 × 2-3 cm, papery, abaxially with small tubercles, adaxially glabrous,…

Species: Ficus simplicissima English Name: Hispid Fig Chinese Name: 掌葉榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs, 1-2.5 m tall, stems not or only occasionally branched. Branchlets cylindric, rugose when dry; with sparse short thick barbed hairs. Stipules lanceolate, 1-2 cm, with sparse short barbed hairs. Leaves palmately divided; petiole cylindric, 1-5 cm, densely covered with short thick barbed hairs, adaxially sulcate;…

Species: Ficus sarmentosa English Name: Impressed Sarmentose Fig Chinese Name: 爬藤榕 Family: Moraceae Description: Shrubs or woody vines. Branchlets grayish white when dry, rugose, glabrous, subglabrous, or densely white-hairy. Stipules lanceolate-ovate, ca. 8 mm, thinly membranous. Leaves distichous; petiole ca. 1 cm, subglabrous; leaf blade ovate, ovate-elliptic, elliptic-lanceolate, lanceolate, or oblong, 8-12 × 3-4 cm, ± leathery, both surfaces…