(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia;; Subsection: Caulocarpae)
Uganda to Sierra Leone. Also in Bioko (Fernando Po).
Pollinators: Courtella camerunensis Wiebes and Courtella gabonensis Wiebes.
Open and gallery forest, often in secondary forest, up to an altitude of 1600m.
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