| Dicotyledon | Literature for Ficus microcarpa
Wagner et al., 1990, 1999. |
| Moraceae -- The Mulberry Family | Bibliography |
| Ficus microcarpa | |
Common name(s): fig, Chinese banyan, Malayan banyan |
| General Information | ||
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| Distribution | Native from Ceylon to India, southern China, Ryukyu Islands, Australia, and New Caledonia.In the Hawaiian Islands, naturalized on Midway, Kaua`i, O`ahu, Moloka`i, Lana`i, Maui, Hawai`i. | |
| Habit |
Variable in habit, often epiphytic, subscandent shrubs when young, in maturity spreading evergreen trees with large branches and numerous aerial roots hanging from the trunk and branches, these sometimes reaching the soil
to form pillar-like roots. |
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| Leaves |
Leaves variable, coriaceous, oblong, elliptic to broadly elliptic or obovate, usually 5-8 cm long, 3-5 cm wide, glabrous, margins entire, petioles 0.6-2 cm long. |
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| Flowers |
Synconia sessile, arising among or just below the leaves, depressed-globose, 6-10 mm in diameter, subtended by 3 broadly ovate, ± persistent bracts. |
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| Fruit |
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| Chromosomes |
2n = 24? |
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