Ficus baeuerleni (PROSEA)
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Ficus baeuerleni King
- Protologue: Journ. Asiat. Soc. Bengal II, 55: 408 (1887).
Synonyms
Ficus mespiloides King (1888), Ficus hollrungii Lauterb. & K. Schumann (1901), Ficus laurentina Diels (1935).
Distribution
New Guinea, New Britain and the Solomon Islands.
Uses
In Papua New Guinea, the latex of the inner bark is drunk to treat diarrhoea or dysentery.
Observations
A large climber, stem red when cut, bark thick, corky; leaves elliptical, 10-25 cm × 4.5-10.5 cm, base subcordate to broadly cuneate, apex acuminate, margin entire, with 5-9 pairs of lateral veins, hairy on the veins below, stipules up to 12 mm long; figs axillary, solitary or paired, depressed globose, 23-30 mm in diameter, lanuginose, ripening rose-red. F. baeuerleni occurs in lowland forest.
Selected sources
281, 609.
Authors
J.P. Rojo, F.C. Pitargue & M.S.M. Sosef
