Distribution
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From
north-eastern South Africa to Kenya.
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Biology
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Pollinator:
Alfonsiella
binghami Wiebes.
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Habitat
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In
woodland and dry evergreen forests, often on termite mounds. |
Description
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(after C.C. Berg in
Berg & Wiebes, 1992): |
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Biological
form
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tree
up to 15 m tall, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic
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Leaves
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shape
& colour
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oblong
to ovate, (sub)coriaceous, apex rounded to acute, base cordate, both
surface hirtellous
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size
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2.5-18
x 2-8 cm
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lateral
veins
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4-7
pairs, basal pair not branched reaching margin far below the middle of the
lamina
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petiole
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0.5-4
cm long, puberulous
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Stipules
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0.5-1.5
cm long, white puberulous, caducous
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Figs
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position
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in
pairs in the leaf axils, also just below the leaves
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shape
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globose
to ellipsoid, Æ
1.5-2.2 cm (fresh), densely white pubescent
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peduncle
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none,
fig sessile
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basal
bracts
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3
mm long, persistent
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References
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Berg,
C.C. 1988. New taxa and combinations in Ficus (Moraceae) in
Africa. Kew Bulletin 43: 77- 97.
Berg,
C.C. 1989. Moraceae. In: R.M. Polhill (ed.) Flora of Tropical East Africa.
A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam.
Berg,
C.C. 1990. Distribution of African taxa of Ficus (Moraccae).
[Proc. 12th AETFAT]. Mitt. inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 23: 401-405.
Berg, C.C. 1990. Annotated check-list of the Ficus species
of the African floristic region, with special reference and a key to the
taxa of southern Africa. Kirkia, 13: 253-291.
Berg,
C.C. 1991. Moraceae. In: E. Launert & G.Y. Pope (eds) Flora
Zambesiaca 9, 6. Natural History Museum, London.
Berg, C.C. & Hijman, M.E.E. 1989. Chapter 11. Ficus. Flora of
Tropical East Africa (ed. R.M. Polhill). 43-86. A.A. Balkema,
Rotterdam.
Berg,
C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1984. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Gabon 26: 1–276.
Berg,
C.C., Hijman, M.E.E. & Weerdenburg, J.C.A. 1985. Moracées (incl.
Cécropiacées). Flore du Cameroun 28: 1–298.
Berg, C.C. & Wiebes, J.T. 1992. African fig trees and
fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen.
Amsterdam, 1-298 pp.
Bouček Z., A. Watsham & J.T. Wiebes, 1981. The fig wasp
fauna of the receptacles of Ficus thonningii (Hymenoptera,
Chalcidoidea). Tijdschrift Voor Entomologie, 124(5): 149-233.
Burrows, J. & Burrows,
S. 2003. Figs of southern & south-central Africa. Umdaus Press,
Hatfield. 379 pp.
Wiebes J.T., 1988. Agaonidae
(Hymenoptera Chalcidoidea) and Ficus (Moraceae): fig wasps and their
figs, II. (Alfonsiella). Proceedings of the Koninklijke Nederlandse
Akademie van Wetenschappen, 91: 429-436.
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Credits
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Photographs
© Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA) or © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa). |
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Ficus tettensis Hutch.
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