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Common names: | Floating fig (English) |
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Status: | Native |
Description: |
Large shrub or small tree, evergreen, putting down adventitious roots to support branches, occasionally a liane, epiphytic. Leaves glabrous, leathery, apex acuminate, margin entire, stipules persistent. Figs with walls thick and spongy, floating in water. |
Type location: |
Tanzania |
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Worldwide distribution: | From Ivory Coast to Kenya to northern Malawi, Mozambique, Zambia and Angola. |
National distribution: | N,Z |
Growth form(s): | Tree. |
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Insects associated with this species: | Agaon fasciatum (Pollinated by this insect) |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Literature: |
Berg, C.C. (1991). Moraceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(6) Page 75. As Ficus cyathistipula Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2003). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa Umdaus Press, South Africa Pages 139 - 141. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 86. As Ficus cyathistipula (Includes a picture). |
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