(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia;; Subsection: Caulocarpae)
Senegal to Uganda and northern Angola; Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique & South Africa (Kwazulu-Natal) and Madagascar.
Pollinator: Courtella bekiliensis bekiliensis (Risbec) (Madagascar); C. bekiliensis bispinosa (Wiebes) African continent.
Lowland rainforest and gallery forest (west and central Africa), coastal & dry forest (east and southern Africa), up to an altitude of 1200m.
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Web editing: Aisha Mayekiso
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