(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Sycomorus; Section: Sycomorus)
Widespread and common in Madagascar. Also present on the Comoro Islands (Anjouan)
Pollinator: Ceratosolen stupefactus Wiebes.
Woodlands and savannas (PN Isalo) up to an altitude of 1700m. The species is sometimes planted.
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