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| Family : MORACEAE |
| Information on the genus : Ficus |
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Status
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| Status for SA : | accepted (present) |
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| Status for TA : | accepted (present) |
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| Synonym(s) Heterotypic |
| =Ficus capensis Thunb. |
| =Sycomorus capensis (Thunb.) Miq. |
| =Ficus capensis var. mallotocarpa (Warb.) Mildbr. & Burret |
| =Ficus mallotocarpa Warb. |
| =Ficus beniensis De Wild. |
| =Ficus capensis var. beniensis (De Wild.) J.-P.Lebrun |
| =Ficus brassii R.Br. ex Sabine |
| =Sycomorus capensis f. guineensis (Miq.) Miq. |
| =Ficus guineensis (Miq.) Stapf |
| =Sycomorus guineensis Miq. |
| =Ficus capensis var. guineensis (Miq.) Miq. |
| =Ficus capensis var. iturensis (De Wild.) J.-P.Lebrun |
| =Ficus ituriensis De Wild. |
| =Ficus capensis var. ostiolata (De Wild.) J.-P.Lebrun |
| =Ficus ostiolata De Wild. |
| =Ficus mallotocarpa var. trichoneura (Warb.) A.Peter |
| =Ficus capensis var. trichoneura Warb. |
| =Ficus capensis var. pubescens Warb. ex De Wild. & T.Durand |
| =Ficus clethrophylla Hiern |
| =Ficus erubescens Warb. |
| =Ficus gongoensis De Wild. |
| =Ficus kondeensis Warb. |
| =Ficus lichtensteinii Link |
| =Ficus munsae Warb. |
| =Ficus ostiolata var. brevipedunculata De Wild. |
| =Ficus panifica Delile |
| =Ficus plateiocarpa Warb. (1901) |
| =Sycomorus riparia Miq. |
| =Ficus riparia (Miq.) A.Rich. |
| =Ficus sycomorus var. prodigiosa Hiern |
| =Ficus sycomorus var. polybotrya Hiern |
| =Ficus sycomorus var. alnea Hiern |
| =Ficus thonningiana (Miq.) Miq. |
| =Urostigma thonningii Miq. |
| =Ficus villosipes Warb. |
| =Ficus stellulata var. glabrescens Warb. |
| =Sycomorus panifica Miq. |
| =Sycomorus sur Miq. |
| =Sycomorus thonningiana Miq. |
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| Ecology and distribution |
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| Biology : |
Tree 5-12 m tall in open woodland, or 25-40 m, with trunk to 1 m Ø and more in semi-deciduous forest; trunk bare of branches below, buttressed in large specimens and often producing suckers from the roots or the base of the trunk[…] |
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see more in the book |
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| Ecology : |
Niayes;wooded savanna;forest gallery;secondary forests;1922 lava flow (Cameroon);forest with Adina microcephala hardpan;rain-forest;close to rivulet banks with[…];near hollows;gravelly places;termite mounds;grassland;secondary scrub. |
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Very variable; in NE Africa with deviating forms (in leaf shape and indumentum, in indumentum of figs). |
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0-2500 m alt. Occasionally planted. Figs sought after. Bark, leaves, young aerial roots eaten (vegetable). Medicinally used. – Easily propagated from seed or truncheons. |
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Cape Verde Isl.; São Tomé, Principe, Bioko/Fernando Poo; S. Africa, Swaziland, E Botswana; Yemen. |
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| Biol./Eco : |
perennial-Tree- Ht 1 - 25 m. Alt: 15 - 2300 m. Distribution: BOT, EC, KN, LP, MP, WC, SWZ |
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Bibliography for Southern Africa :
- Food plants of Zimbabwe : 100 (1986).
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| More info on : |
| see under Jstor_African Plant Initiative |
| see under Flore d'Afrique Centrale |
| see under Flora of Mozambique |
| see under Flora of Zimbabwe |
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| Record n°24149 modified 2007-04-20 |
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