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Ficus mucuso Ficalho 1884

 

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

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Distribution

Ficus mucuso distribution

From NW Angola to Guinea and Ethiopia.

Biology

Pollinator: Ceratosolen arabicus Mayr; Ceratosolen galili Wiebes is a cuckoo.

Habitat

Lowland rainforest

Credits

Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus

 

Web editing: Aisha Mayekiso

Description (after Berg in Berg & Wiebes 1992)                    Next species

Biological form

Tree up to 40 m tall, terrestrial

Leaves

shape & colour

elliptic to subcordiform, chartaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base cordate, both surfaces ± scabrous, puberulous

 

size

6-17 x 4-15 cm

 

lateral veins

3-6 pairs, basal pair above or at middle of the lamina

 

petiole

2-9 cm long, puberulous with brown hairs

Stipules

1-2 cm long, (sub)puberulous, caducous

Figs

position

on 40 cm long branchlets on the main branches and trunk

 

shape

globose to obovoid, Æ 2.5-4 cm (fresh), puberulous

 

peduncle

1-2.5 cm long

 

basal bracts

3-5 mm long

 


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