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Sandy-leafed fig (Ficus heteropleura)

Dlium Sandy-leafed fig (Ficus heteropleura)

Sandy-leafed fig (Ficus heteropleura) is a species of plant in the Moraceae, shrub, woody, small branches, green bark with brown nodules, grows on rocks, clay, limestone in forests, agricultural land, roadsides , water channels and drought resistant.

F. heteropleura has oval-shaped leaves, up to 25 cm long, up to 12 cm wide, a vein in the middle with several lateral veins, the upper side is shiny green, the lower side is rough, the tip has an elongated pointed tail. Petiole 1-2 cm, red or brown and hairy.



Fruits grow in the leaf axils on shoots with normal leaves, in pairs or solitary, round, 1-2 cm, thick short hairs, and 1 cm stalks.

TAXON

Kingdom: Plantae
Phylum: Tracheophyta
Subphylum: Angiospermae
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Rosales
Family: Moraceae
Tribe: Ficeae
Genus: Ficus Tourn. ex L. in Sp. Pl.: 1059 (1753)
Species: Ficus heteropleura Blume in Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 466 (1825)

HETEROTYPIC SYNONYMS

Ficus acuminata Kunth & C.D.Bouché in Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1846: 21 (1847)
Ficus caudatifolia Warb. in J.R.Perkins & al., Fragm. Fl. Philipp.: 194 (1905)
Ficus caudatifolia var. eucaudata (Elmer) Sata in Contr. Hort. Inst. Taihoku Imp. Univ. 32: 221 (1944)
Ficus caudatifolia var. ovata Sata (1944)
Ficus crenulata Hassk. in Cat. Hort. Bot. Bogor. Alt.: 76 (1844)
Ficus eucaudata Elmer in Leafl. Philipp. Bot. 1: 46 (1906)
Ficus euryifolia Kunth & C.D.Bouché in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot., sér. 3, 7: 252 (1847)
Ficus heteropleura var. caudatifolia (Warb.) Y.H.Tseng in Trees Taiwan 2: 105 (2006)
Ficus heteropleura var. mindanaensis (Warb.) Corner in Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 480 (1960)
Ficus intermedia Griff. in Not. Pl. Asiat. 4: 395 (1854)
Ficus marginalis W.Hunter ex Miq. in London J. Bot. 7: 429 (1848)
Ficus mindanaensis Warb. (1905)
Ficus radicans Roxb. in Fl. Ind., ed. 1832. 3: 536 (1832)
Ficus radicans var. brevifolia Miq. in Fl. Ned. Ind. 1(2): 306 (1859)
Ficus radicans var. variegata W.Bull in Nursery Cat. (William Bull) 377: 9 (1904)
Ficus rostrata var. urophylla (G.Lodd.) Valeton in S.H.Koorders & T.Valeton, Bijdr. Boomsoort. Java 11: 174 (1906)
Ficus urophylla G.Lodd. in Bot. Cab. 17: t. 1697 (1831)

PUBLICATIONS

Chaudhary, L.B., Sudhakar, J.V., Kumar, A., Bajpai, O., Tiwari, R. & Murthy, G.V.S. (2012). Synopsis of the genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India. Taiwania 57: 193-216.

Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter E-F: 1-50919.

Grierson, A.J.C. & Long, D.G. (1983). Flora of Bhutan 1(1): 1-186. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Karthigeyan, K., Pandey, R.P. & Mao, A.A. (eds.) (2023). Flora of Andaman and Nicobar Islands 2: 1-689. Botanical Survey of India. Ministry of environment, forest and climate change.

Kress, W.J., DeFilipps, R.A., Farr, E. & Kyi, D.Y.Y. (2003). A Checklist of the Trees, Shrubs, Herbs and Climbers of Myanmar. Contributions from the United States National Herbarium 45: 1-590. Smithsonian Institution.

Lê, T.C. (2003). Danh lục các loài thực vật Việt Nam 2: 1-1203. Hà Nội : Nhà xuất bản Nông nghiệp.

Newman, M., Ketphanh, S., Svengsuksa, B., Thomas, P., Sengdala, K., Lamxay, V. & Armstrong, K. (2007). A checklist of the vascular plants of Lao PDR: 1-394. Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh.

Nurtjahya, E. & al. (2026). Flowering Plants of Bangka Island: Native and Introduced. Acta Botanica Hungarica 68: 127-156.

Pandey, R.P. & Dilwakar, P.G. (2008). An integrated check-list flora of Andaman and Nicobar islands, India. Journal of Economic and Taxonomic Botany 32: 403-500.

Pusalkar, P.K., Mao, A.A. & Inge, P. (eds.) (2022). Flora of India 24: 1-688. Botanical Survey of India.

Turner, I.M. (1995 publ. 1997). A catalogue of the Vascular Plants of Malaya. Gardens' Bulletin Singapore 47(2): 347-655.

Wu, Z. & Raven, P.H. (eds.) (2003). Flora of China 5: 1-505. Science Press (Beijing) & Missouri Botanical Garden Press (St. Louis).

VERNACULAR NAME

Chinese (simplified): 尾叶榕
Chinese (traditional): 尖尾長葉榕
English: Sandy-leafed fig
Indonesian: Ara emas, Ara gading, Beringin gading
Japanese: コウトウカシワイヌビワ
Java: Ringin gading, Ringin emas
Polish: Figowiec czepny

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