Ficus muelleriana C.C. Berg [family MORACEAE]

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 6, page 13, (1991) Author: C. C. Berg
Names
Ficus muelleriana C.C. Berg [family MORACEAE], in Kew Bull.43: 85 (1988); in Kirkia13: 264 (1990). Type: Mozambique, Manica e Sofala, 1 km. E. of Makurupini Falls, Rich s.n. (SRGH, holotype).
Information
Shrub. Leafy twigs 2.5–3 mm. thick, densely white puberulous, when dry red-brown, periderm not flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate, 4.5–9.5 x 3–5 cm., subcoriaceous; apex acute to ± faintly acuminate; base cordate; margin entire; superior surface sparsely puberulous, the midrib more densely so, inferior surface puberulous on the midrib, hirtellous on the lateral veins, tomentose on the smaller veins; venation above obscure, beneath prominent, lateral veins 5–8 pairs, the basal pair branched, ending at the margin just below or at the middle of the lamina, tertiary venation reticulate; petiole (1.2)3.5–5.5 cm. long, epidermis not flaking off; stipules 1–1.5 cm. long, minutely puberulous, caducous. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, subsessile; basal bracts 2,1.5–2 mm. long, persistent. Receptacle subglobose, c. 5 mm. in diam. when dry, densely white-puberulous.
Range
Not known from elsewhere.
Distribution
Mozambique MS Manica Distr., Maronga, 13.viii.1945, Simão 462 (LISC).
Notes
Differs from F. tettensis in leaf shape (distinctly longer than broad), in the sparser indumentum on the leaf superior surface, the longer stipules and the persistent periderm of the branches.
Ficus muelleriana C.C. Berg [family MORACEAE]
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