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Ficus sur Forsskål 1775

 

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

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Ficus sur

Geocarpic figs.

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B-phase figs.

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Split open fig - releasing wasps.

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Distribution

Ficus sur distribution

From South Africa to Senegal and the Arabian Peninsula.

Biology

Pollinator: Ceratosolen capensis (E & S Africa); C. flabellatus and C. silvestrianus (W Africa).

Habitat

In woodland and moist forests.

Credits

Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus and Simon van Noort (Iziko Museums of Cape Town)

 

Web editing: Aisha Mayekiso

 

More information (link to PlantZAfrica web site)

Description

(after Berg in Berg & Wiebes 1992)         Next species

Biological form

Tree up to 30 m tall, terrestrial

Leaves

shape & colour

elliptic to ovate, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex acuminate to acute, base subacute to (sub)cordate, both surfaces glabrous to puberulous

 

size

4-20 x 3-13 cm

 

lateral veins

5-9 pairs, basal pair branched reaching margin below the middle of the lamina

 

petiole

1.5-9 cm long, puberulous

Stipules

1-3.5 cm long, pubescent, caducous

Figs

position

on up to 1.5 m (mostly 50 cm) long branchlets on the main branches and trunk

 

shape

globose, Ø 2-4 cm (fresh), glabrous rarely (sub)puberulous

 

peduncle

0.5-2 cm long

 

basal bracts

2-3 mm long

  


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