Ficus adamii Elmer

  • Filed As

    Moraceae
    Ficus adamii Elmer

  • Collector(s)

    A. D. E. Elmer 14029, Oct 1912

  • Location

    Philippines. Agusan del Norte. Cabadbaran, Mt Urdaneta, Province of Agusan, Island of Mindanao. Along the Catangan creek.

  • Habitat

    in a densely forested humid flat.

  • Description

    Large tree; trunk 4 feet through, 60 or more feet high; branched from the middle or below it, subterete and somewhat crooked; large main branches ascending but soon horizontally spreading, ultimately numerously re-branched; trunk divided at base into buttressed prop-roots; wood with a faint sweet taste and odor, soft, conspicuously ringed, dingy white; bark yellowish and densely covered with transverse brown colored excrescences, the middle portion isabellinus, the soft inner aide sappy white; the nether side of the epidermis light yellow; twigs relatively short and sub-erect; leaves horizontal, coriaceous, curved upon the upper deep green and shining surface, much lighter green and duller beneath, veins greenish white, figs in pairs and axillary, divaricate or descending, upon flattened pale green stalks, pale green but turning yellow on the ground, spotted with light papillae, ⅓ to ½ inch long, irregularly sub-globose or short ellipsoids, the 3 green subtending bracts very small.

  • Specimen Notes

    [Record databased by volunteers in the DIGIVOL Crowdsourcing Platform. Imported to NYBG database in 2024.]

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 04373888

    Occurrence ID: b78d8338-7b40-484f-a310-92d5801c23fe

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Rosales

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • All Determinations

    Ficus adamii Elmer

  • Region

    Asia

  • Country

    Philippines

  • State/Province

    Agusan del Norte

  • Locality

    Cabadbaran, Mt Urdaneta, Province of Agusan, Island of Mindanao. Along the Catangan creek

  • Elevation

    Alt. 914 m. (2999 ft.)

  • Location Notes

    [Pacifica]

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04373888
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
CABADBARAN (MT. URDANETA), PROVINCE OF A6USAN
ISLAND OF MINDANAO, OCTOBER, 1912
140B9# fious adami Blm* large tr* e in a densely
forested humid flat along the Catangan ereek at 3000 feet;
trunk 4 feet through, 6© or more feet high* branched from
the middle or below it, subterete and somewhat crooked;
large main branches ascending but Boon horizontally spread-
ing, ultimately numerously rebranched; trunk divided at
base into buttressed prop-roots; wood with a faint sweet
taste and odor, soft, conspicuously ringed, dingy white;
baric yellowish and densely cove;red with traneverse brown
ftolorfd excrescences, the middle portion isabellinus, |ke
«oft inner aide sappy white; the nether side of the epider-
mis light yellw; twigs relatively short and suberect;
Reaves horizontal, coriaceous, curved upon the upper deep
green and shining surface, much lighter green and duller
breath* veins greenish white, figs in pairs and axillary,
dt^ariflate or deseeding, upon flattened pale green stalks,
pale green but turning yellow on the ground, spotted with
light	papillae, l/3 to l/£ inch long, irregularly sub«»
globose #r short ellipe$!t the 3 green subtending bracts very
small, *£&leti* in Manobo» Oabadbaran, October, 1912*
ELMER’S FIELD NOTES
04373888