Compilation
Ficus smutsii
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Name
Identification
Ficus smutsii I.Verd. [family MORACEAE ] Verified by Not on sheet, Ficus tettensis Hutch. [family MORACEAE ] (stored under name); Verified by Not on sheet,
Related name
- Ficus tettensis
- Ficus smutsii
Flora
Entry for Ficus tettensis Hutch. [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 smutsii Verdoorn [family MORACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew 1935: 205 (1935). Type from S. Africa.
Ficus tettensis Hutch. [family MORACEAE], in Bull. Misc. Inf., Kew 1915: 341 (1915); in F.T.A. 6, 2: 199 (1917). —K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Africa: 116 (1977). —C.C. Berg in Kirkia 13: 264 (1990). —van Greuning in S. Afr. J. Bot. 56, 6: 614, fig. 13 (1990). Type: Mozambique, Tete (Tette), Kirk s.n. (K, holotype).
Information
Tree up to 6 m. tall, or shrub, mostly epilithic; bark of the trunk orange-yellow. Leafy twigs 2–6 mm. thick, white hirtellous to pubescent, periderm of older parts flaking off when dry. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subreniform to cordate, 1.5–11.5 x 2–12 cm., subcoriaceous; apex short acuminate or subacute to rounded; base cordate; margin subentire or irregularly crenate; superior surface ± densely hirtellous to pubescent, often somewhat scabrous, inferior surface hirtellous, subtomentose on the veins; venation prominent beneath, lateral veins 3–5(6) pairs, the basal pair branched, ending at the margin above the middle of the lamina; tertiary venation reticulate orpartly scalariform; petiole 0.5–3(5.5) cm. long, 1–2 mm. thick, epidermis not flaking off; stipules 2–6 mm. long, almost as wide as long, apex rounded, white to brownish pubescent, caducous. Figs in the leaf axils, subsessile or on peduncles up to 2 mm. long, basal bracts 2–3 mm. long, caducous. Receptacle subglobose, 0.5–1 cm. in diam. when dry, densely white puberulous to hirtellous.
Habitat
Occasionally at lower and medium altitudes on rocky outcrops and in clefts in rocks
Altitude range
0–1000 m.
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Distribution
Mozambique M Machava, 6.xii.1963, Balsinhas 682 (MAL; PRE).Mozambique MS Cheringoma, Inhaminga, Ginge, 21.v.1948, Mendonça 4343 (LISC; PRE).Mozambique T andados c. de 10 km. de Magoé para Chicoa, 25.ii.1970, Torre & Correia 18097 (COI; LISC; LMU).Zimbabwe C Wedza Distr., c. 1.6 km. S. of Ruzawi R., on Inoro road, 22.v.1968, Rushworth 1125 (K; SRGH).Zimbabwe S Gwanda Distr., Doddieburn Ranch, junction of Umzingwane & Sibizini (Tsibizini) Rivers, 5.v.1972, Pope 635 (K; LISC; PRE; SRGH).Zimbabwe W Matopos Reserve, 4.ii.1954, Orpen 8/54 (K; LISC; SRGH).Mozambique N Mandimba, Namwera, 16.xii.1941, Hornby 2434 (PRE).Botswana SE Sephare in Mahalapye, 11.iv.1959, De beer 889 (K; SRGH).Malawi N Mzimba Distr., 8 km. S. of Euthini, 27.xi.1976, Pawek 11977 (LMA; PRE).Zimbabwe N Mazowe Distr., Chipoli Farm, 24.ix.1958, Moubray s.n. (PRE).Zambia S Mazabuka Distr., Ghoma township, 22.vii.1952, Angus 1 (FHO; PRE).Botswana N Ngwato Distr., c. 5 km. (3 m.) S. of Topsi siding, xii.1948, Miller B/804 (K).
Distribution (external)
S. Africa (N. Transvaal)
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