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Ficus geocharis, Kipandi, Crocker Range, Sabah

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

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  leaves and fig fruit. The fruit grow on long root like stolons at ground level.
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. Note that the leaves grow in a flat plane but not opposite each other (distichous)

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
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