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Ficus reflexa reflexa Thunberg

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

Ficus reflexa reflexa Thunberg 1786

   

Distribution

Madagascar and Mascarene Islands. A common species widely distributed in Madagascar especially in the east and the north. 

Biology

Pollinator: Elisabethiella reflexa Wiebes.

Non-pollinators: Philocaenus Boučeki (Wiebes); Philotrypesis cnephaea Wiebes; Sycoscapter cornutus Wiebes; Sycoryctes remus (Wiebes); Camarothorax brevimucro Bouček; C. hemimucro Wiebes.

 

Habitat

Frequently in forests (various types), up to an altitude of 1400m.

Credits

Photographs © Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA)

 

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Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)

and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)

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