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Ficus persicifolia Warburg

 

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

 

Ficus persicifolia Warburg 1894

Distribution

 Distribution_of_Ficus_persicifolia

Gabon and southern Central African Republic to Uganda, northern Zambia and northern Angola.

Biology

 Pollinator: Alfonsiella fimbriata Waterston

Habitat

 Forest, usually along rivers or shores of lakes, rarely in savanna woodland up to an altitude of 1800m (Berg 1992). In Zambia the species occurs in woodland and is often associated with termite mounds (Burrows & Burrows 2003)

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