Vasilis Teodoridis:
Moraceae | Ficus
20. Ficus microcarpa Linnaeus f.; Suppl. Pl. 442. 1782.
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Ficus amblyphylla (Miquel) Miquel; F. cairnsii Warburg; F. condaravia Buchanan-Hamilton; F. littoralis Blume; F. microcarpa var. crassifolia (W. C. Shieh) Liao; F. microcarpa var. fuyuensis J. C. Liao; F. microcarpa var. oluangpiensis J. C. Liao; F. microcarpa var. pusillifolia J. C. Liao; F. retusa Linnaeus var. crassifolia W. C. Shieh; F. retusiformis H. Léveillé; F. rubra Roth; Urostigma amblyphyllum Miquel.
Trees; 15-25 m tall; crown wide; d.b.h. to 50 cm. Bark dark gray. Branches producing rust-colored aerial roots when old. Stipules lanceolate; ca. 0.8 cm. Petiole 5-10 mm; glabrous; leaf blade narrowly elliptic; 4-8 x 3-4 cm; ± leathery; adaxially dark green and shiny but dark brown when dry; base cuneate; margin entire; apex ± obtuse; basal lateral veins long; secondary veins 3-10 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets or on leafless older branchlets; paired; yellow to slightly red when mature; depressed globose; 6-8 mm in diam.; inside with a few short bristles among flowers; sessile; involucral bracts broadly ovate; persistent. Male; gall; and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: scattered; sessile or pedicellate; filament as long as anther. Gall and female flowers: sepals 3; broadly ovate; style ± lateral; stigma short; clavate. Achenes ovoid. Fl. May-Jun.
Mountains; plains; below 1900 m. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Guizhou; Hainan; Taiwan; Yunnan; S Zhejiang [Bhutan; India; Malaysia; Myanmar; Nepal; New Guinea; Sikkim; Sri Lanka; Thailand; Vietnam; N Australia].