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Ficus schweinfurthii

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Isotype of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. [family MORACEAE]
Isotype of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. [family MORACEAE]
Isotype of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. [family MORACEAE]
Isotype of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. [family MORACEAE]
Type of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. ex Schweinf. [family MORACEAE]
Type of Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. ex Schweinf. [family MORACEAE]
Ficus vallis-choudae Delile [family MORACEAE]
Type of Ficus schweinfurthii Schweinf. [family MORACEAE]
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Identification
Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. ex Schweinf. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet., Ficus vallis-choudae Delile [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet.,
Related name
  • Ficus vallis-choudae
  • Ficus schweinfurthii
  • Ficus vallischoudae

Flora

Entry for Ficus vallis-choudae Del. [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
Sycomorus schimperiana Miq. [family MORACEAE], in Hook., Lond. Journ. Bot. 7: 112 (1848). Type as for F. vallis-choudae.
Ficus vallis-choudae Del. [family MORACEAE], in Ann. Sci. Nat., Bot. sér. 2, 20: 94 (1843). —Hutch. in F.T.A. 6, 2: 103 (1916). —Lebrun & Boutique in F.C.B. 1: 119 (1948). —Keay in F.W.T.A. ed. 2, 1: 606 (1958). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 30 (1962). —K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Africa: 118 (1977). —C.C. Berg et al. in Fl. Cameroun 28: 142, t. 47 (1985). —C.C. Berg in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 58 (1989); in Kirkia 13: 257 (1990). Type from Ethiopia.
Ficus schweinfurthii Miq. [family MORACEAE], in Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 295 (1867). Type from Sudan.
Ficus vallis-choudae var. pubescens Peter [family MORACEAE], in Fedde, Repert, Beih. 40, 2: 98 (1932). Types from Tanzania.
Information
Tree up to 10(20) m. tall. Leafy twigs 2–10 mm. thick, glabrous or sparsely appressed puberulous, sometimes hirtellous or tomentose, indumentum white, periderm flaking off when dry. Leaf lamina ovate to cordiform or ± deltate, 4–24(36) x 3–24(30) cm., coriaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acute to subobtuse or very shortly acuminate, base obtuse to truncate or cordate, margin coarsely and obtusely dentate to repand, sometimes subentire; superior surface smooth and glabrous or puberulous on the main veins, sometimes scabridulous and hirtellous to pubescent; lateral veins 5–8 pairs; petiole 2–11(13.5) cm. long, 1–3 mm. thick, glabrous, appressed puberulous or sometimes hirtellous to tomentose, indumentum white, epidermis flaking off when dry; stipules 1–3 cm. long, ciliolate in the lower part, appressed puberulous or subsericeous, caducous. Figs solitary in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, occasionally on leafless branchlets up to 30 cm. long on the older wood; peduncle 2–12 mm. long, 4–6 mm. thick; basal bracts c. 2 mm. long. Receptacle subglobose to obovoid, c. 20 mm. in diam. when fresh, 15 mm. in diam. when dry, ± densely white to yellowish puberulous to hirtellous or tomentose, tomentellous near the ostiole, or glabrous; yellowish to orange at maturity with longitudinal orange to reddish stripes.
Habitat
Riverine forest, mixed evergreen forest and swamp forest (mushitu)
Range
Widespread in subsaharan Africa, from Guinea and Mali to Ethiopia and southwards to the Flora Zambesiaca area
Altitude range
0–1800 m.
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Distribution
Mozambique Z Tumbini Hill, 19.ix.1942, Hornby 2809 (PRE).Malawi S Thyolo (Cholo) Mt., 29.ix.1946, Brass 17875 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH).Zambia C Serenje Distr., Muchinga, Manda Stream, 30.xi., J.C.M. 3166 (FHO; NDO).Zambia W Lake Kashiba, NW. of Mpongwe, 23.xi.1982, Berg & Bingham 1398 (K; U).Mozambique N entre Maniamba e Metangula, 10.x.1942, Mendonça 730 (COI; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe E Chimanimani Distr., Lusitu R., 8.viii.1975, Müller 2355 (PRE; SRGH).Malawi N Rumphi Distr., Livingstonia Escarpment, 14.i.1975, Pawek 9746 (K; PRE; SRGH).Zambia N Mkupa near hot spring, 7.x.1949, Bullock 1165 (K).
Notes
Fanshawe 1493 (K) from Chingola, Zambia, differs from typical F. vallis-choudae in that it bears figs on branching, leafless branchlets up to 30 cm. long, on the older wood.This is the only non-cauliflorous continental species of subgen. Sycomorus. It can be distinguished from ramiflorous forms of F. sycomorus by the smooth leaf lamina.

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