Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq.

  • Filed As

    Moraceae
    Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq.

  • Collector(s)

    A. D. E. Elmer 11241, Jul 1909

  • Location

    Philippines. Todaya (Mt. Apo). District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, "along a wooded ridge along the Baracatan Creek".

  • Habitat

    along creek.

  • Description

    A struggling climber upon or about large tree trunks...; stems freely branched and forming a network about its host or support. main branches 20 to 30 feet long , divaricate, freely branched beyond the middle; bark smooth, mottled; wood soft, fibrous, odorless. with a slight sweetish taste; twigs hanging, dense or numerous, flexible and very tough; coriaceous leaves usually conduplicate on the upper nery deep green surface, especially toward the recurved apex, the greenish brown petioles ascending, the blades descending; figs in pairs from the leaf axils, without proper peduncles subtended by bracts or even vestiges of bractioles, somewhat irregularly round, hard, dark creamy or yellowish white and tinged with a little red, obovoid, the base much constricted into a false stalk sessile, apex sunken, the minute umbilical scales brownish red; "Robut-tum;".

  • Specimen Notes

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

  • Identifiers

    NY Barcode: 4375440

    Occurrence ID: 6f48589b-328e-47dc-ac1c-563dcc0629ae

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  • Kingdom

    Plantae

  • Division

    Magnoliophyta

  • Order

    Rosales

  • Family

    Moraceae

  • All Determinations

    Ficus nuda (Miq.) Miq.

  • Region

    Asia

  • Country

    Philippines

  • Locality

    Todaya (Mt. Apo). District of Davao, Island of Mindanao, "along a wooded ridge along the Baracatan Creek"

  • Elevation

    Alt. 686 m. (2251 ft.)

  • Location Notes

    [Pacifica]

  • Distribution

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11241. Ficus umbrina 11b. A struggling olimber
upon or about largo tree trunks along a wooded ridge
along the Baraoatan creek at 2200 foot; stems freely
branched and forming a not work about its host or
support« main branches 20 to 30 feet long, divaricate,
freely branched beyond the middle; bark smooth, mottled;
wood soft, fibrous, odorless, with a slight sweetish
taste; twigs hanging, dense or numerous, flexible and
very tough; coriaceous leaves usually conduplicate
on the upper very deep green surface especially so
toward the recurved apex, the greenish brown petioles
asoending, the blades descending; figs in pairs from
the leaf axils, without proper peduncles subtended by
bracts or oven vestiges of brae tides, somewhat irre*
gmlarly round, hard, dark oreamy or yellowish white
and tinged with a little red, obovoid, the base much
constricted into a false stalk« sessile, apex sunken,
the minute unbilical scales brownish red; "Robut-tum;"
T.M,«. July. 1909.	ELMER’S FIELD NOTES
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PHILIPPINE ISLANDS PLANTS
DISTRIBUTED BY A. D. E. ELMER
TODAYA (MT. APO). DISTRICT OP DAVAO
ISLAND OF MINDANAO, JULY, 1900
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