Vasilis Teodoridis:
Moraceae | Ficus
32. Ficus variegata Blume; Bijdr. Fl. Ned. Ind. 459. 1825.
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Ficus chlorocarpa Bentham (1861); not Miquel (1848); F. garciae Elmer; F. glochidiifolia Hayata; F. konishii Hayata; F. variegata f. rotundata Sata; F. variegata var. chlorocarpa Bentham ex King; F. variegata var. garciae (Elmer) Corner.
Trees; 7-15 m tall; d.b.h. 10-15(-17) cm; dioecious. Bark gray to grayish brown; smooth. Branchlets green; sparsely pubescent. Stipules ovate-lanceolate; 1-1.5 cm; glabrous. Leaves alternate; petiole 2.5-6.8 cm; leaf blade broadly ovate to ovate-elliptic; 10-17 cm; thickly papery; pubescent when young; base rounded to shallowly cordate; margin entire; undulate; or shallowly toothed; apex acute; acuminate; or obtuse; basal lateral veins 4; outer 2 thin and short; secondary veins 4-16 on each side of midvein. Figs clustered on shortly tuberculate branchlets from old stem; red; with green stripes and spots when mature; globose to depressed globose; 2.5-3.5 cm in diam.; apex slightly depressed and navel-like; apical pore convex; bracts ovate; peduncle 2-4 cm; slender; involucral bracts caducous; scar ringlike. Male flowers: near apical pore; calyx lobes 3 or 4; broadly ovate; stamens 2; filaments basally connate. Gall flowers: near apical pore; calyx lobes connate; tubular; apically 4- or 5-lobed; ± covering ovary; ovary enclosed by calyx lobes; style lateral; short; stigma funnelform. Female flowers: calyx lobes 3 or 4; connate at base; thinly membranous; linear lanceolate; style persistent; as long as achenes; stigma clavate; glabrous. Achenes obovoid; finely tuberculate. Fl. winter.
Valleys; Low to medium elevations. Fujian; Guangdong; Guangxi; Hainan; Taiwan; S Yunnan [India; Indonesia; Japan; Malaysia; Myanmar; Philippines; Thailand; Vietnam; Australia; Pacific Islands].
Collections with white-spotted fruits have been named as var. garciae.