Ficus subcuneata (PROSEA)

Plant Resources of South-East Asia Introduction

List of species

Ficus subcuneata Miq.

Protologue: Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 235 (1867).

• Ficus stoechotricha Diels (1935),
• Ficus formosa Summerh. (1941).
• Ficus trichoneura Diels non Summerh.

Sulawesi, the Moluccas, New Guinea and New Britain.

In Papua New Guinea, the latex is applied directly to scabies or a skin rash.

• A small to medium-sized tree up to 30 m tall, bark surface greyish-brown to reddish or orange-brown, branches whorled.
• Leaves arranged spirally, obovate, 12-20 cm × 4.5-9 cm, base broadly cuneate to subcordate, apex acuminate, margin entire, with (7-)9-13(-16) pairs of lateral veins, hairy below, stipules up to 22 mm long.
• Figs axillary, solitary or occasionally paired, depressed globose, up to 40 mm in diameter, glabrescent, ripening scarlet; flowers with 4-6 free tepals, male flowers in 1 row, sessile, with 1 stamen, female flowers sessile.

F. subcuneata is locally common in rain forest, often on riversides, from sea-level up to 1200 m altitude.

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• Ficus (Medicinal plants)

• J.P. Rojo, F.C. Pitargue & M.S.M. Sosef