Crocker Range, geocharis, SECTION SYCOCARPUS

Ficus geocharis, Kipandi, Crocker Range, Sabah

Date: March 25, 2017Author: uluulublog

Linus Gokusing collecting leaves from a Ficus geocharis tree at Kipandi 730m asl in the Crocker Range.

Ficus geocharis IMG_8873 - Copy.JPG — Base of Ficus geocharis tree growing on a hill slope at Kipandi in the Crocker Range. Quentin Phillipps to show the size of the buttresses.

Ficus geocharis IMG_8866 - Copy.JPG — Ficus geocharis leaves and fig fruit. The fruit grow on long root like stolons at ground level.

Ficus geocharis IMG_9286 - Copy.JPG — Ficus geocharis is most common in wet hill forest throughout Borneo. The fig fruit in Sabah and Brunei are smooth (glaborous). Further south they may be covered with hairs.

Ficus geocharis IMG_8844 - Copy.JPG — Ficus geocharis. Note that the leaves grow in a flat plane but not opposite each other (distichous)

Ficus geocharis JQP018D Kipandi earth fig 111105 001.jpg — Ficus geocharis. Note the distinctive “ear” or auricle at the base of each leaf. Whilst a number of Bornean figs have “auricles” on their leaves Ficus geocharis is the only Earth Fig with an auricle. The rest are all lianas or climbers in Section :Sycidium