Uganda has a fig richness of 47 species. Forty-three Ficus species were recorded from Uganda by Berg & Hijman (1989). Three additional species were added with the resurrection of species formerly synonymised under F. thonningii (Burrows & Burrows 2003). An additional species, F. chirindensis and a further subspecies of F. ottoniifolia macrosyce have now been recorded (Ipulet et al. In press). Ten species are Distributionally restricted (endemic) to east Africa. Uganda has a higher fig tree species richness than Kenya (36 species) or Tanzania (39 species). The higher Ugandan species richness is attributable to the presence of ten species that are typical elements of the Guinea-Congolian forest region and whose Distribution does not reach as far east as Kenya or Tanzania. Thirty fig species occur in all three countries, six are shared between Tanzania and Kenya, six between Tanzania and Uganda and one between Uganda and Kenya (Berg & Hijman, 1989; van Noort & Compton 1999) and updated with change in status of F. thonningii complex of species (van Noort et al 2007).

Genus: FICUS

• Subgenus: SYCIDIUM

  • Section: SYCIDIUM

    • F. capreifolia Delile

    • F. exasperata Vahl

    • F. asperifolia Miq.

• Subgenus: SYCOMORUS

  • Section: SYCOMORUS

    • Subsection: Sycomorus

      • F. sycomorus L.

      • F. mucuso Ficalho

      • F. sur Forsk.

      • F. vogeliana (Miq.) Miq.  

      • F. vallis-choudae Delile 

• Subgenus: PHARMACOSYCEA  

  • Section: OREOSYCEA

    • Subsection: PEDUNCULATAE

      • F. variifolia Warb. 

      • F. dicranostyla Mildbr.  

• Subgenus: UROSTIGMA

  • Section: UROSTIGMA

    • Subsection: UROSTIGMA

      • F. ingens (Miq.) Miq.

      • F. salicifolia Vahl

      • F. verruculosa Warb.

  • Section: GALOGLYCHIA

    • Subsection: GALOGLYCHIA

      • F. lutea Vahl

      • F. saussureana DC.

    • Subsection: PLATYPHYLLAE

      • F. platyphylla Delile 

      • F. vasta Forsk.  

      • F. wakefieldii Hutch.         

      • F. glumosa Delile

      • F. stuhlmannii Warb.

      • F. abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.

      • F. populifolia Vahl  

      • F. trichopoda Baker

    • Subsection: CHLAMYDODORAE

      • F. amadiensis De Wild

      • F. craterostoma Mildbr. & Burret

      • F. linqua linqua De Wild. & T. Durand   

      • F. natalensis natalensis Hochst.

      • F. burkei (Miq.) Miq.

      • F. persicifolia Warb.

      • F. psilopoga Ficahlo

      • F. rokko Warb. & Schweinf.

    • Subsection: CRASSICOSTAE 

      • F. oreodryadum Mildbr. 

      • F. pseudomangifera Hutch.   

    • Subsection: CYATHISTIPULAE

      • F. conraui Warb. 

      • F. preussii Warb.

      • F. cyathistipula cyathistipula Warb.  

      • F. densistipulata De Wild. 

      • F. barteri Sprague   

      • F. wildemaniana De Wild. & T. Durand    

    • Subsection: CAULOCARPAE

      • F. ottoniifolia ottoniifolia (Miq.) Miq. 

        • F. ottoniifolia lucanda (Ficalho) C.C. Berg 

        • F. ottonifolia macrosyce C.C. Berg

        • F. ottonifolia uluqurensis (Mildbr. & Burret) C.C. Berg 

      • F. tremula acuta (De Wild.) C.C. Berg 

      • F. artocarpoides Warb.       

      • F. polita polita Vahl

      • F. chirindensis C.C. Berg

      • F. sansibarica macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burret)

      • F. bubu Warb.

      • F. ovata Vahl

References

Burrows, J., Burrows, S., 2003. Figs of southern & south-central Africa. Umdaus Press, Hatfield.

Berg, C.C., Hijman, M.E.E., 1989. Chapter 11. Ficus. In: Polhill, R.M. (Ed.), Flora of Tropical East Africa, A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 43-86.

Berg, C.C., Wiebes, J.T., 1992. African Fig Trees and Fig Wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen, Verhandelingen Afdeling Natuurkunde, Tweede Reeks, Deel 89, Amsterdam.

Ipulet, P., van Noort, S., Mcleish, M., & Kyomuhendo, J. New records of Ficus (Moraceae) species for Uganda.

Van Noort, S. & Compton, S.G. 1999. Fig wasps (Agaonidae, Hymenoptera) and fig trees (Moraceae) of Mkomazi. In Coe, M. J., McWilliam, N. C., Stone, G. N. & Packer, M. (eds). Chapter 18: 299-320. Mkomazi: the ecology, biodiversity and conservation of a Tanzanian Savanna. Royal Geographical Society (with The Institute of British Geographers), London.

van Noort S., Gardiner, A.J., Tolley K.A. 2007. New records of Ficus (Moraceae) species emphasize the conservation significance of inselbergs in Mozambique. South African Journal of Botany 73: 642-649.