Checklist of Madagascan Ficus (Moraceae)

The Madagascan floristic region (Madagascar, Comoro Islands, Mascarene Islands, Seychelles and Aldabra islands) includes 30 Ficus species (Berg 1986; Berg & Wiebes 1992). Madagascar itself contains 25 species (16 endemic species; 5 shared with surrounding islands; 4 shared with continental Africa: F. lutea, F. polita polita, F. sycomorus and F. trichopoda) (Berg, 1986). Here we also treat F. sycomorus sakalvarum as a good species based on morphology and the fact that this taxon has a unique pollinating wasp species associated with it, pushing the total for Madagascar to 26 species.

Genus: FICUS

• Subgenus: SYCIDIUM

  • Section: SYCIDIUM

    • F. pachyclada pachyclada Baker

      • F. pachyclada arborea(Perrier) C.C. Berg

    • F. bojeri Baker

    • F. brachyclada Baker

    • F. politoria Lam.

• Subgenus: SYCOMORUS

  • Section: SYCOMORUS

    • Subsection: Sycomorus

      • F. sycomorus L.

      • F. sakalavarum Baker

      • F. tiliifolia Baker

      • F. torrentium Perrier

      • F. polyphlebia Baker

      • F. botryoides Baker

      • F. trichoclada Baker

      • F. karthalensis C.C. Berg

• Subgenus: PHARMACOSYCEA  

  • Section: OREOSYCEA

    • Subsection: PEDUNCULATAE

      • F. assimilis Baker

      • F. ampana Berg

• Subgenus: UROSTIGMA

  • Section: UROSTIGMA

    • Subsection: UROSTIGMA

      • F. madagascariensis C.C. Berg

    • Subsection: CONOSYCEA

      • F. menabeensis Perrier

      • F. humbertii Berg

  • Section: GALOGLYCHIA

    • Subsection: GALOGLYCHIA

      • F. lutea Vahl

    • Subsection: PLATYPHYLLAE

      • F. trichopoda Baker

      • F. grevei Baill. 

      • F. rubra Vahl 

      • F. marmorata Baker 

      • F. bivalvata Perrier

    • Subsection: CHLAMYDODORAE

      • F. antandronarum antandronarum (Perrier) Berg

      • F. reflexa reflexa Thunb. 

    • Subsection: CAULOCARPAE

      • F. polita polita Vahl