青藤公 qing teng gong

Ficus harmandii Gagnepain.

Trees, 6-15 m tall. Bark reddish brown to grayish yellow. Branchlets yellowish brown, slender, with reddish yellow scurfy hairs. Stipules lanceolate, 7-10 mm. Leaves alternate; petiole 1-4 cm, glabrous or sparsely pubescent; leaf blade elliptic-lanceolate to elliptic, 7-19 × 2-6 cm, papery, glabrous, abaxially reddish brown, base broadly cuneate, margin entire, apex caudate to acuminate; basal lateral veins extending 1/3-1/2 length of leaf blade; secondary veins 2-4 on each side of midvein, reticulate veins abaxially ± conspicuous. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, paired or solitary, globose, 5-12 mm in diam., with rust-colored scurfy hairs, apical pore navel-like, convex; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm, slender, with rust-colored scurfy hairs; involucral bracts broadly ovate. Male flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 3 or 4, ovate; stamen 1 or 2; filaments short. Female flowers: calyx lobes 4, dark red, obovate; style lateral.

Mountains, beside streams; 100-2000 m. Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, SW Hunan, S Sichuan, S Yunnan [NE India, Laos, Vietnam].