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Ficus natalensis natalensis Hochstetter

 

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

 

Ficus natalensis natalensis Hochstetter 1845

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Distribution

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From north-eastern South Africa to Uganda and Kenya.

Biology

 Pollinators: Elisabethiella socotrensis Mayr, Elisabethiella stuckenbergi Grandi & Alfonsiella longiscapa Joseph. Elisabethiella socotrensis often develops together  with E. stuckenbergi in the same fig in South Africa.

Habitat

 Forest (both wet and dry), and woodland in rocky places, up to an altitude of 2200m.

Description (after Berg in Berg & Wiebes 1992)

Biological form

shrub or tree up to 30 m tall, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic

Leaves

shape & colour

oblong to obovate, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, base acute, both surface glabrous

 

size

2.5-10 x 1-5 cm

 

lateral veins

6-13 pairs, midrib not reaching the apex of the lamina

 

petiole

0.2-3 cm long, glabrous

Stipules

0.2-1 cm long, glabrous, caducous

Figs

position

in pairs in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, initially enclosed by bud covers

 

shape

globose, Æ 1.5-2 cm (fresh), glabrous

 

peduncle

0.2-1 cm long

 

basal bracts

2-2,5 mm long, caducous

Credits

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

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