Ficus carchiana C. C. Berg

Pederneiras, Leandro Cardoso, Mansano, Vidal De Freitas & Romaniuc-Neto, Sergio, 2017, Taxonomic synopsis of the Ficus sect. Pharmacosycea (Moraceae) from Colombia, Phytotaxa 313 (1), pp. 1-22 : 4-5

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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/phytotaxa.313.1.1

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scientific name

Ficus carchiana C. C. Berg
status

 

3. Ficus carchiana C. C. Berg View in CoL , in Berg & Rosselli (1996: 232).

Type:— ECUADOR. Carchi: below Maldonado, 9 November1982, Pennington et al. 10501 (holotype: QCA; isotypes: BG! K! QCNE) .

Terrestrial trees, 20–30 m tall. Leaf blade 16–26 cm long, 14–17 cm wide, elliptic, base cuneate, apex acute, face adaxial smooth, glabrous, face abaxial smooth, glabrous or puberulent; secondary veins 18–22 pairs; petiole 4.0– 6.5 cm long, glabrous, periderm persistent; stipules caducous, 7.0– 10 cm long, glabrous. Syconia solitary; peduncle sessile or subsessile; lateral bracts presents; receptacle 2.0– 2.5 cm in diameter when dry, hispid or puberulent, apex rounded ( Fig. 1C, D View FIGURE 1 ).

Distribution and habitat in Colombia: — Antioquia, in montane rainforest at elevations of 1700–2000 m ( Fig. 2 View FIGURE 2 ).

Selected specimens:— COLOMBIA. ANTIOQUIA: Frontino, Corregimiento Nutibara, Cuenca alta del Río Cuevas,

Sánchez 334 (HUA); Frontino, Región of Murrí, ca 13 road-Km from Nutibara, McPherson 13393 (HUA).

QCA

Pontificia Universidad Católica del Ecuador

BG

University of Bergen

K

Royal Botanic Gardens

QCNE

Museo Ecuatoriano de Ciencias Naturales

Kingdom

Plantae

Phylum

Tracheophyta

Class

Magnoliopsida

Order

Rosales

Family

Moraceae

Genus

Ficus

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