Distribution
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Madagascar. Recorded from the east and the south. Relatively common from sea
level to an altitude of 1300 m. |
Biology
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Pollinator: unknown.
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Habitat
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Along
rivers, in temporary inundated areas and in riverine forests, also
in marshy places and along the coasts. |
Description
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(after C.C. Berg in
Berg &
Wiebes, 1992): |
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Biological
form
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Leaves
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shape
& colour
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in
spirals, cordiform to ovate sometimes elliptic, chartaceous, apex shortly
acuminate, base cordate to subcordate, margin crenate dentate, scabrous,
whitish hispidulous to brownish hirtellous
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size
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4-22
x 2-14 cm, smaller in subsp. arborea : 3-8 x 2-6 cm
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lateral
veins
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3-6
pairs, basal pair branched reaching margin at about the middle of the
lamina
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petiole
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1-13
cm long
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Stipules
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0.1-0.5
cm long, hispidulous, caducous
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Figs
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position
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solitary
in the leaf axils or below the leaves, rarely on older wood
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shape
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subglobose
to subpyriform, Æ 1-2.5 cm (fresh), hispidulous
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peduncle
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0.5-2.5
cm long
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basal
bracts
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1
mm long, scattered on the peduncle
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References
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Berg, C.C. 1986. The Ficus species (Moraceae) of Madagascar and the
Comore Islands. Bulletin du Muséum national d’Histoire naturelle d’Histoire
Naturelle. Paris (4), 8: 17-55.
Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and
fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.
Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.
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Credits
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Photographs ©
Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA). |
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Ficus
politoria
Lamarck |
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