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Ficus fischeri Mildbr. & Burret [family MORACEAE]

Date Updated: 26 July 2007

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 kiloneura Hornby [family MORACEAE], in Bothalia 4: 1007 (1948). Type: Mozambique, Niassa, near Chiponde Frontier Post, Hornby 2471 (PRE, holotype; K, isotype). Ficus fischeri Mildbr. & Burret [family MORACEAE], in Engl., Bot. Jahrb. 46: 227 (1911). —Hutch. in F.T.A. 6, 2: 126 (1916). —F. White, F.F.N.R.: 34 (1962). —K. Coates Palgrave, Trees Southern Africa: 108 (1977). —C.C. Berg in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 70 (1989); in Kirkia13: 265 (1990). —van Greuning in S. Afr. J. Bot.56, 6: 617, fig. 17 (1990). TAB.20. Lectotype from Tanzania, chosen by Berg in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 70 (1989).
Information
Tree up to 15 m. tall, hemi-epiphytic, soon terrestrial; crown flat-topped. Leafy twigs 4–10 mm. thick, glabrous or puberulous, periderm not flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to elliptic, (4)6.5–17 x (3)5–11 cm., coriaceous; apex acuminate, sometimes subacute or rounded, base cordate to truncate, sometimes rounded; margin entire; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 9–15 pairs, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins or reticulate; petiole 2.5–10 cm. long, (1)1.5–3 mm. thick; stipules 3–8 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, caducous. Figs solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils; peduncle 8–18 mm. long; basal bracts 2–2.5 mm. long, caducous. Receptacle globose, 1.5–2 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1.5–2 cm. in diam. when dry, glabrous or minutely brownish puberulous; yellowish green at maturity; wall of fruiting fig c. 2 mm. thick when dry, ± wrinkled.
Habitat
Riverine vegetation, miombo woodland, Baikiaea woodland and wooded grassland, often on termitaria
Altitude range
900–1500 m. 1500 900
Distribution
Mozambique MS Buzi, Régulo Mucheve, 20.xi.1964, Carvalho 760 (K; LMA).Mozambique Z c. 3 km. E. of Alto Molócuè, 29.vi.1971, van Niekerk S2B (K; SRGH).Zambia S Tungzi Area, Mulobezi, 14.x.1947, Greenway & Brenan 7948 (K; PRE).Zambia C c. 40 km. from Lusaka on Kabwe road, 19.xi.1982, Berg & Bingham 1381 (K; U).Mozambique N Maniamba, 100 km. a Boronango-Mecaloja, 13.ix.1934, Torre 576 (COI; LISC; PRE).Malawi S Mulanje Distr., Phalombe-Jali road, Masamba Village, 19.viii.1983, Seyani 1220 (MAL).Zimbabwe E Chipinge, 24–32 km. S. of Mt. Selinda, xii.1972, Burrows 551 (SRGH).Zambia B Nangweshi, near Zambezi R., 21.vii.1952, Codd 7134 (BM; K; PRE; SRGH).Botswana N Botswana side of Kwando mainstream, 18°06?S, 23°21?E, 27.vii.1973, P.A. Smith 686 (K; PRE; SRGH).
Distribution (external)
Zaire (Shaba) Tanzania Angola
Ficus fischeri Mildbr. & Burret [family MORACEAE]
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