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Ficus punctifera

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Syntype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Isotype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Syntype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Syntype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Syntype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Syntype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
Isolectotype of Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE]
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Identification
Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ficus exasperata Vahl [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Boutique, 1948
Related name
  • Ficus exasperata
  • Ficus punctifera
  • Ficus asperifolia

Flora

Entry for Ficus exasperata Vahl [family MORACEAE]
Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (K)
Collection
Flora Zambesiaca
Resource Type
Reference Sources
Entry From
FZ, Vol 9, Part 6, page 13, (1991) Author: C. C. Berg
Names
Ficus silicea Sim [family MORACEAE], For. Fl. Port. E. Afr.: 102, t. 87 (1909). Type: Mozambique, (Quissico), Sim 5381 (K, holotype).
Ficus scabra Willd. [family MORACEAE], in Mem. Acad. Berol. 1798: 102 (1801) non Sim vide F. sycomorus (1909). Type from Guinea.
Ficus exasperata Vahl [family MORACEAE], Enum. Pl. 2: 197 (1805). —Hutch. in F.T.A. 6, 2: 110 (1916). —Lebrun & Boutique in F.C.B.1: 126 (1948). —Keay in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1: 605, fig. 173 (1958). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 30 (1962). —K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Africa: 107 (1977). —C.C. Berg et al. in Fl Cameroun 28: 121, t. 39 (1985). —C.C. Berg in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 52 (1989); in Kirkia13: 254 (1990). Type from Ghana.
Ficus punctifera Warb. [family MORACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Congo, Bot., sér. 6, 1: 35, t. 7 (1904). Lectotype from Zaire, chosen by Berg in Fl. Gabon 26: 124 (1984).
Information
Shrub or tree, up to 20(30) m. tall. Leafy twigs 1 -5 mm. thick, hispidulous. Leaves almost distichous and alternate, sometimes subopposite; lamina ovate to elliptic or obovate, sometimes to oblong or subcircular, 2–16(20) x 1–12 cm., sometimes ± asymmetrical, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, sometimes acute, obtuse or rounded, base cuneate or occasionally subcordate, margin dentate to subentire; superior surface scabrous, hispidulous, the inferior surface scabrous, hispidulous or partly hirtellous to subtomentose; lateral veins 3–5(6) pairs; petiole 5–22(60) mm. long; stipules 2–5 mm. long, strigillose to strigose, caducous. Figs in pairs or solitary in the leaf axils, just below the leaves or sometimes on the older wood; peduncle 5–10(15) mm. long; bracts 1–5, broadly ovate, scattered on the peduncle, 1–4 similar bracts on the receptacle outer surface; receptacle subglobose, 10–25 mm. in diam. when fresh, 8–15 mm. in diam. when dry, hispidulous, yellow, orange or reddish at maturity.
Habitat
Evergreen forests and forest margins, and riverine vegetation, often as a strangler, sometimes persisting in cleared places
Range
From Senegal to Djibouti, extending to Angola in the southwest and Mozambique in the southeast
Altitude range
0–2000 m.
2000
0
Distribution
Malawi S Thyolo Mt., 24.ix.1946, Brass 17792 (BM; K; PRE).Mozambique Z Milange, Serra Tumbine, 19.i.1966, Correia 487 (LISC).Mozambique N Cabo Delgado, entre Mueda e Nangade, 18.ix.1948, Barbosa 2218 (K; LISC; PRE).Malawi N Nkhata Bay, Mkuwadzi Forest, 14.xi.1982, Dowsett-Lemaire 18 (FHO).Zimbabwe E Chipinge, Musirizwe/Bwazi R. junction area, 30.i.1975, Pope, Biegel & Russell 1458 (K; PRE).Zambia N Lumangwe, 14.xi.1957, Fanshawe 4003 (FHO; K; NDO).Mozambique GI Quissico, 1908, Sim 5381 (K).Mozambique MS Mossurize Distr., Mt. Espungabera, 21.xi.1960, Leach & Chase 10502 (BM; COI; K; LISC; PRE).Mozambique T Monte de Zóbuè, 3.x.1942, Mendonça 568 (COI; LISC; LMU; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
São Tomé
Bioko
Yemen
Sri Lanka
S. India

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