(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia;; Subsection: Caulocarpae)
Senegal to Central African Republic and south to NW Angola, at low altitudes.
Pollinator: Courtella medleri (Wiebes)
Lowland rainforest, gallery forest and savanna woodland.
Can be confused with F. polita and F. bubu.
Photographs: top seven © Jacinta Abalaka (A.P. Leventis Ornithological Research Institute, Jos, Nigeria); bottom two © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France).
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