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Accession Data:

Ficus villosa Blume

  • Common Name: Villous Fig
  • Family: Moraceae Link

  • Country of Origin: Borneo - Mount Kinabalu

  • Description: A latex-containing, root-climbing fig covered with soft villous hairs on its vegetative parts. Young plants typically creeping prostrately up trunks or on ground. Mature plants may dangle vine-like stems across trunks and shrubs. Foliage is alternate, stalked leaves have thickly leathery leaf blades that are 9–30 by 4.5–11 cm, elliptical to ovate, with rounded or slightly heart-shaped bases when matured, and sunken venation on its upper surfaces. Its young leaves have leaf blades that are very hairy, and softer, red to greenish orange. Stems are woody, flexible, covered with fine hairs, inconspicuously hidden behind leaves. All parts oif plant leak white latex when bruised. Flowers are tiny, cream-coloured, massed together on inside of syconium wall. Syconia produced in clusters on stem nodes and leaf axils. Species is dioecious, with male and female flowers found on separate plants. Flowers pollinated by symbiont fig wasps.4

Accession Data:

  • Accession # 201800079
  • Source: Dylan Hannon HBG 95971
  • Provenance: 
    COLL: Malaysia; Borneo, Sabah, Mt. Kinabalu.

    Additional provenance data on file but suppressed from public display.

  • Accession Date: 09-20-2018
  • Bench: 1215 - AUS:West Bench SS
    • Currently: active - healthy
    • Qty: 4 confirmed on 02-17-2023

Classification:

  • Division: Magnoliophyta
  • Class: Magnoliopsida
  • SubClass: eurosid I
  • Order: Rosales
  • SubOrder:
  • Family: Moraceae
  • SubFamily:
  • Tribe: Ficeae
  • SubTribe:

References (internal):

  • EEB Greenhouse Holdings native to: India / Andaman Is. / Myanmar / Nicobar Is. / Thailand / Vietnam / Borneo / Jawa / Malaya / Maluku / Philippines / Sumatera

References (external):

  1. The Plant List (2013). Version 1.1. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.
  2. Ficus villosa at ARS-GRIN. Last accessed on Tuesday, September 25, 2018.
  3. Images #00 (cropped) & #01 (original) by Xue Davis. Used with permission. Last accessed on Wednesday, October 10, 2018.
  4. Ficus villosa at NParks Flora & Fauna Web. Last accessed Wednesday, 19 December, 2018.

data regenerated on Wed, 01 Mar 2023 14:21:50 -0500 [bcm v4.0]

Images:

Ficus villosa

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W/C = Wild Collected
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