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<big>''[[Ficus curtipes]]'' Corner</big>
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:Protologue: Moraceae

== Synonyms ==

''Ficus obtusifolia'' Roxb.

== Vernacular names ==

*Thailand: hai linmaa, hai luang (northern), sai hin (peninsular).

== Distribution ==

From north-eastern India throughout continental South-East Asia to Indonesia (Sumatra). It is rare in north-western Peninsular Malaysia.

== Uses ==

The latex is said to be of fairly good quality for rubber production but in Malesia the tree is too rare to be of any economic importance.

== Observations ==

Starting as an epiphytic fig, eventually becoming a big tree, up to 40 m tall with trunk diameter of 1 m, containing latex. Leaves alternate; petiole up to 1.5 cm long; blade elliptical-oblong to obovate, 10-18 cm × 5-7 cm, base cuneate, apex rounded to truncate with numerous secondary veins which fuse at the margin to form a distinct intramarginal vein. Inflorescence a fig, arranged in axillary pairs, subtended by 3 persistent bracts; fig globose, 7 mm in diameter, yellow to yellow-pink, sessile. ''F. curtipes'' is closely allied to ''F. elastica'' Roxb. and preferably grows in per-humid lowland and hill forest.

== Selected sources ==

11, 27, 36, 45.



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