Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia

Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia (H.Lév. & Vaniot) Corner, Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 428 1960. (syn: Ficus bhotanica King (ambiguous synonym); Ficus bhotanica King ex Hook. fil. (ambiguous synonym); Ficus laceratifolia Lév. & Vaniot);

India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam), Bhutan, China, Myanmar as per Synopsis of the Genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India Lal Babu Chaudhary*, Jana Venkata Sudhakar, Anoop Kumar, Omesh Bajpai, Rinkey Tiwari and G. V. S. Murthy- Taiwania, 57(2): 193-216, 2012;

China (Guangxi, Guizhou, Sichuan, Yunnan), Bhutan, Myanmar [Burma] (Kachin, Mandalay, Sagaing) as per Catalogue of Life;

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One more interesting tree from Baijnath, Uttatakhand for ID-GSMAY2016/17 : 5 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2)
One more interesting tree from Baijnath, Uttatakhand for ID, photographed on April 16, 2012.

Perhaps Ficus subincisa as per Indian Flora message and post by …
Second report on our Forum.

Seems to be Ficus subincisia

Please have re-look at my plant keeping in mind slender branches. … has suggested it as F. sarmentosa and he may be right. Please compare with upload by … with thicker branches and broader leaves. That may be F. subincisa as suggested by … efi thread.

I think it should be Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia as per discussions at Ficus sarmentosa Buch.

Please have a look at
https://www.flowersofindia.net/Nepal%20Fig.html

it can’t be Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia in which leaves are broadly obovate and toothed at top. Its new name is F. bhotanica according to KEW database and image by …
http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=50245&flora_id=2
image link

I still go with F. sarmentosa

http://www.efloras.org/object_page.aspx?object_id=50280&flora_id=2

Thanks … for pointing this out. According to POWO Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia is a synonym of Ficus bhotanica, which is a native of East Himalaya, not even Nepal. And Gurucharan ji found his plant in Uttarakhand, which doesn’t quite agree with the distribution of Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia.

All posts of https://efloraofindia.com/2017/10/16/ficus-gasparriniana-var-laceratifolia/

need to be sorted out !

After checking the GBIF specimens, I think it is Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia (GBIF specimens (one) only.

Pl. also see the GBIF specimens (one) of Ficus sarmentosa.

So much confusion !
https://ppbc.iplant.cn/sp/40800
https://ppbc.iplant.cn/sp/11718

Yes, … Your image links make it quite clear.

Shared images are of Ficus bhotanica King; Ann. Bot. Gard. Calc. 1: 75, t. 205b (1888)
Synonym
= Ficus gasparriniana var. laceratifolia (H.Lév. & Vaniot) Corner; Gard. Bull. Singapore 17: 428 (1959)

Ficus sarmentosa Buch. ex J.E. Smith (accepted name) : 7 posts by 2 authors. Attachments (6)
Sharing some pictures of Ficus sarmentosa Buch. ex J.E. Smith (accepted name) shot at Chautara Nepal on 30 March 2013.