(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Galoglychia; Subsection: Platyphyllae)
Senegal to Ethiopia and Somalia.
Pollinator: Elisabethiella species near E. pectinata Joseph.
Savanna woodland, often in rocky places, up to an altitude of 750m.
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