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Ficus burkei (Miq.) Miq. 1867

 

(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia; Subsection: Chlamydodorae)
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Distribution

 

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Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, south eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, Zambia, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Botswana, South Africa and Swaziland. Planted widely in many areas of South Africa outside the species' natural distribution (lighter colour), where the pollinator has also colonised.

Biology

 

 Pollinator: Elisabethiella stuckenbergi (Grandi), but Alfonsiella brongersmai Wiebes and A. longiscapa Joseph have also been recorded.

Habitat

 Savanna woodland and wet or dry forest, up to an altitude of 1800m.

Credits

Photographs: Jean-Yves Rasplus and Simon van Noort

 

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