广西榕 guang xi rong

Scandent shrubs or vines. Branchlets densely long brown pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 4 mm, membranous, densely covered with short brown pubescence, glabrescent, basal ones bractlike and persistent. Leaves distichous, clustered apically on branchlets; petiole 4-6 mm, densely covered with short brown pubescence; leaf blade obovate, 3-3.5 × 1.5-3 cm, leathery, abaxially greenish white with raised veins, adaxially dark green, base cuneate, margin entire, apex obtuse; veins abaxially raised and adaxially impressed, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary or paired, ovoid-ellipsoid, 6-7 × 4-5 mm, densely covered with brown long pubescence, inside without bristles, apical pore navel-like; peduncle ca. 3 mm, densely brown, long pubescent when young; involucral bracts ovate-triangular, ca. 2 mm wide. Male flowers: ca. 2.5 mm; pedicel ca. 1 mm; calyx lobes 4, red, obovate-lanceolate, ca. 1.5 mm; stamens 2; filament short; anthers ca. 1.5 mm, mucronate.

9* Limestone areas; 400-500 m. Guangxi.