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Ficus brevifolia

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Ficus brevifolia Nutt. [family MORACEAE]
Filed as Ficus brevifolia Nutt. [family MORACEAE]
Type of Ficus brevifolia Nutt. [family MORACEAE]
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Name

Identification
Ficus brevifolia Nutt. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by William Thomas Gillis, Ficus citrifolia Mill. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by William Thomas Gillis,
Related name
  • Ficus citrifolia
  • Ficus pertusa
  • Ficus brevifolia
Common name
  • Wild banyan tree, Flora of North America Vol. 3

Flora

Entry for Ficus citrifolia Miller [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Flora of North America (FNA)
Collection
Flora of North America
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of North America, Vol 3,
Names
Ficus citrifolia Miller [family MORACEAE], Gard. Dict. ed., 8. 1768
Ficus brevifolia Nuttall [family MORACEAE]
Ficus laevigata Vahl [family MORACEAE]
Ficus laevigata var. brevifolia (Nuttall) D'Arcy [family MORACEAE]
Ficus populifolia Desfontaines [family MORACEAE]
Ficus populnea Willdenow var. floridana E. Warburg [family MORACEAE]
Ficus populnea var. brevifolia (Nuttall) E. Warburg [family MORACEAE]
Information
Shrubs or trees, evergreen, to 15 m. Roots adventitious, aerial, hanging. Bark brownish, smooth. Branchlets grayish, glabrous or sparingly pubescent. Leaves: stipules 0.5-2 cm, glabrous; petiole (0.7-)1.5-6 cm. Leaf blade ovate to elliptic or obovate, 3-14 × 1.5-8 cm, nearly leathery, base usually cordate or rounded to obtuse, margins entire, apex obtuse to acute or acuminate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins fewer than 10, if more than 10, not uniformly spaced. Syconia solitary or paired, pedunculate, yellow or red, spotted, globose to globose-ovoid, 8-18 mm diam., glabrous; peduncles to ca. 15 mm; subtending bracts 2, shortly connate, deltate or broadly rounded, 2-3 mm wide, glabrous or puberulent; ostiole subtended by 3 bracts, bracts ovate, ca. 1 × 2-3 mm, slightly umbonate.
Phenology
Flowering spring-summer
Altitude range
0-10 m
Distribution
MexicoWest IndiesCentral AmericaSouth America.USA Fla.
Discussion
Ficus citrifolia is the large and graceful banyan tree that is planted for shade around verandas.

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