Distribution
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Guinea to Southern Sudan, W. Kenya and NW Tanzania.
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Biology
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Pollinator:
Allotriozoon
prodigiosum
Grandi.
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Habitat
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Forest,
often riverine forest, up to 1600m, often
planted.
Non-pollinator:
Philocaenus
cavus van Noort.
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| Description |
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Biological
form
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tree
up to 20 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or terrestrial with spreading crown
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Leaves
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shape
& colour
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oblong
to subobovate to oblanceolate, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base acute to obtuse,
upper surface
glabrous, lower surface puberulous
to hirtellous
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size
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(10)15-50
x 3-17(25) cm
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lateral
veins
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12-20
pairs, tertiary venation partly scalariform
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petiole
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1-8(16)
cm long, 4-7 mm thick, epidermis flaking off
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Stipules
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1-8
cm (flush up to 12 cm), brown to yellowish pubescent, caducous/subpersistent
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Figs
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position
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in
pairs or up to 3 together in the leaf axils
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shape
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subglobose
or obovoid,
Ø
2-4 cm (fresh), subhirsute to villous, yellow to reddish
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peduncle
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none,
fig subsessile
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basal
bracts
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7-15
mm long, persistent
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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. 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.
Burrows, J. & Burrows,
S. 2003. Figs of southern & south-central Africa. Umdaus Press,
Hatfield. 379 pp.
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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 chlamydocarpa chlamydocarpa
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