(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus)
The checklist has been formulated from Berg et al.'s (1985) treatment of the Moraceae for the Flora of Cameroon and Berg in (Berg & Wiebes 1992) and updated with recent nomenclatural changes. Forty-one species of Ficus have been recorded from Congo.
Genus: FICUS (Congo)
Subgenus: SYCIDIUM
Section: SYCIDIUM
F. exasperata Vahl
F. asperifolia Miq.
Subgenus: SYCOMORUS
Section: SYCOMORUS
Subsection: Sycomorus
F. mucuso Ficalho
F. sur Forsk.
F. vogeliana (Miq.) Miq.
Subgenus: PHARMACOSYCEA
Section: OREOSYCEA
Subsection: PEDUNCULATAE
F. variifolia Warb.
F. dicranostyla Mildbr.
Subgenus: UROSTIGMA
Section: UROSTIGMA
Subsection: UROSTIGMA
F. ingens (Miq.) Miq.
Section: GALOGLYCHIA
Subsection: GALOGLYCHIA
F. lutea Vahl
Subsection: PLATYPHYLLAE
F. recurvata De Wildeman
F. trichopoda Baker
Subsection: CHLAMYDODORAE
F. calyptrata Vahl
F. amadiensis De Wild
F. craterostoma Mildbr. & Burret
F. linqua linqua De Wild. & T. Durand
F. natalensis leprieurii (Miq.) C.C. Berg
F. persicifolia Warb.
F. psilopoga Ficahlo
F. rokko Warb. & Schweinf.
F. kamerunensis Mildbr. & Burret
Subsection: CRASSICOSTAE
F. elasticoides De Wild.
F. burretiana Hutch.
F. pseudomangifera Hutch.
F. adolfi-friderici Mildbr.
F. louisii Boutique & J. Léonard
Subsection: CYATHISTIPULAE
F. conraui Warb.
F. preussii Warb.
F. cyathistipula cyathistipula Warb.
F. densistipulata De Wild.
F. subcostata De Wild.
F. barteri Sprague
F. wildemaniana De Wild. & T. Durand
Subsection: CAULOCARPAE
F. ottoniifolia ottoniifolia (Miq.) Miq.
F. ottoniifolia lucanda (Miq.) Miq.
F. tremula kimuenzensis (Warb) C.C. Berg
F. artocarpoides Warb.
F. polita polita Vahl
F. sansibarica macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burret)
F. dryepondtiana De Wild.
F. umbellata Vahl
F. bubu Warb.
F. ovata Vahl
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