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Ficus wakefieldii

Ficus wakefieldii Hutchinson 1915

 

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia; Subsection: Platyphyllae)
In horticulture, Mike Bingham's farm, Lusaka. Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Ficus wakefieldii  
In horticulture, Pretoria Botanical Gardens. Photograph © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa).
Ficus_wakefieldii
Illustration © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).

Distribution

Distribution_of_Ficus_wakefieldii

Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania and northern Zambia.

Biology

Pollinator: Elisabethiella socotrensis (Mayr).

Habitat

Savanna woodland in rocky places and on termite mounds, up to an altitude of 2000m.

Description

(after C.C. Berg in Berg & Wiebes, 1992):

Biological form

tree up to 25 m tall, terrestrial, wide crown

Leaves

shape & colour

cordiform to ovate, (sub)coriaceous, apex rounded, base cordate, both surface ± hirtellous

 

size

6-23 x 5-23 cm

 

lateral veins

5-8 pairs, basal pair branched reaching margin at or just above the middle of the lamina

 

petiole

2-6 cm long, hirtellous

Stipules

0.5-1.5 cm long, yellow hirsute, caducous

Figs

position

in pairs in the leaf axils, initially enclosed by bud covers

 

shape

subglobos, Æ 1.5-2 cm (fresh), densely to sparsely yellow pubescent

 

peduncle

none

 

basal bracts

3-5 mm long, persistent

References

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.

Credits

Photographs © Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of South Africa); Illustration © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA).

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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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