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Ficus lateriflora Vahl 1805

 

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Sycidium; Section: Sycidium)
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Distribution

Reunion Island.

Biology

Pollinator: Kradibia etiennei Wiebes.

Non-pollinator: Sycoscapter gibbus Saunders

Habitat

Forest, usually associated with water courses, up to an altitude of 1400m.

References

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.

Credits

Top eight photographs © Finn Kjellberg (CNRS); bottom four photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA)

Ficus pachyclada pachyclada Baker

Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

 

Citation: van Noort, S. & Rasplus, JY. 2024. Figweb: figs and fig wasps of the world. URL: www.figweb.org(Accessed on <day-month-year>).

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