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Ficus ingens (Miquel) Miquel 1867

 

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

 

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Ficus_ingens Ficus_ingens
Ficus_ingens Ficus_ingens

Distribution

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From eastern South Africa to Senegal and the Arabian Peninsula.

Biology

 

Pollinator: Platyscapa soraria Wiebes.

 

Non-pollinators: Otitesella longicauda; Otitesella rotunda

Habitat

In woodland, often in rocky places. 

 

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Credits

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

 

Web editing: Aisha Mayekiso

Description

(after Berg in Berg & Wiebes 1992)              Next species

Biological form

Tree up to 15 m tall, terrestrial

Leaves

shape & colour

ovate to lanceolate, coriaceous, apex acute, base cordate, both surfaces glabrous

 

size

5-20 x 3-11 cm

 

lateral veins

8-11 pairs, basal pair almost straight

 

petiole

0.5-4 cm long, glabrous or brownish puberulous

Stipules

0.5-1 cm long, yellowish velutinous, caducous

Figs

position

in pairs in the leaf axils or just below the leaves

 

shape

subglobose, Æ 1-2 cm (fresh), minutely white to brown puberulous

 

peduncle

none or up to 0.5 mm long

 

basal bracts

2 mm long

 


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