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Ficus gongoensis

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Identification
Ficus gongoensis De Wild. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ficus sur Forssk. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
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Flora

Entry for Ficus gongoensis De Wild. [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora of Tropical Africa
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
Flora of Tropical Africa, Vol 6, Part 2, page 17, (1916) Author: (By J. HUTCHINSON AND A. B. Rendle)
Names
Ficus gongoensis De Wild. [family MORACEAE], in Fedde, Repert. xii. 196. —De Wild. in Bull. Soc. Bot. Belg. lii. 211.
Information
A tree; young branchlets more or less terete, with deciduous bark. Leaves elliptic or obovate, narrowly acuminate, rounded or cordate at the base, 3 1/2–8 in. long, 2–4 1/2 in. broad, glabrous, distinctly 3-nerved at the base, remaining lateral nerves 6–7 on each side, slightly impressed above, prominent below. Receptacles arranged in panicles up to 24 in. long, globose or pear-shaped, more or less stipitate, up to 1/2 in. long and 5 lin. broad, densely velvety hirsute, mammillate at the apex, with a bracteate ostiole; peduncle up to nearly 1/2 in. long, velvety with spreading hairs. Basal bracts connate into a 2–3-lobulate disc. Flowers more or less as in F. mallotocarpa .
Distribution
Congo South Central territory of the Gongo chief, Seret, 314!

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