Ficus subulata Bl.

Shrubs, scandent but male plants erect. Young branchlets thin. Stipules subulate, 1.5-2 cm, apically curved, sometimes persistent. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-1.4 cm; leaf blade olivaceous to yellowish green when dry, obliquely elliptic to obovate-elliptic, usually asymmetric, 8-15 × 2.5-7 cm, papery, puberulent when young, glabrescent, abaxially slightly papillate tuberculate, margin entire, apex acute to acuminate; venation inconspicuous; basal lateral veins short, secondary veins 7-10 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, sometimes on leafless older branchlets, paired or clustered, reddish orange when mature, globose to ovoid, 2-5(-9) mm in diam., with small sparse tubercles, pedunculate or sessile with base attenuate into slender stalk; involucral bracts sometimes sheathlike, one side extending to middle of peduncle; lateral bracts present. Male flowers: near apical pore; calyx tubular, 4-lobed, fleshy; stamen 1; rudimentary ovary globose. Gall flowers: scattered; calyx lobes similar to those of male flowers; ovary globose; stigma capitate. Female flowers: calyx lobes connate, apically lobed, hairy; style persistent, lateral, elongated. Achenes shortly ellipsoid. Fr. May-Aug.

Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Xizang, Yunnan [Bhutan, Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Sikkim, Thailand].

Himalaya (Nepal, Sikkim), S. China, Malaysia, Solomon Is.

300 m

Sparse forests; below 800(-1600) m.

Ficus sikkimensis Miquel; F. subulata f. inaequifolia Sata.