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Issue: Vol. 701 No. 1: 13 May 2025
Type: Article
Published: 2025-05-13
DOI: 10.11646/phytotaxa.701.1.8
Page range: 105-114
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Ficus flavifolia (Moraceae), a new climbing fig tree from central Laos

Eastern China Conservation Centre for Wild Endangered Plant Resources, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai 201602, China
Komarov Botanical Institute of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Prof. Popov Str., 2, 197022 St. Petersburg, Russia
Institute of Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi-10072, Vietnam; Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi-10072, Vietnam
Institute of Biology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi-10072, Vietnam; Graduate University of Science and Technology, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, 18 Hoang Quoc Viet, Cau Giay, Hanoi-10072, Vietnam
Eastern China Conservation Centre for Wild Endangered Plant Resources, Shanghai Chenshan Botanical Garden, Shanghai 201602, China; State Key Laboratory of Plant Diversity and Specialty Crops, South China Botanical Garden, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Guangzhou 510650, China
Ficus sarmentosa complex Ficus subg. Synoecia sect. Rhizocladus subsect. Plagiostigma Hin Namno National Park Indo-Burma region new species Eudicots

Abstract

After comprehensive morphological comparison, specimen examination, and phylogenetic relationship inference, a new climbing fig tree, Ficus flavifolia (Moraceae) is described and illustrated from central Laos. The new species shares some traits with the F. sarmentosa complex, such as distichous leaves, axillary solitary figs, and two free stamens, indicating the new species to be a member of the latter together with the phylogenetic results. The new species is sister to F. howii, but it is easily distinguishable from the latter by the well-developed indumentum on the leaves and syconia, yellowish-brown abaxial surface of lamina, thick branchlets, petioles, and peduncles, and ridges on the syconia.

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How to Cite

Zhang, Z., Averyanov, L.V., Nguyen, K.S., Bui, van T. & Liao, S. (2025) Ficus flavifolia (Moraceae), a new climbing fig tree from central Laos. Phytotaxa 701 (1): 105–114. https://doi.org/10.11646/phytotaxa.701.1.8