Ficus gomelleira Hort.Monac. ex Kunth & C.D.Bouché

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 25(-40) m tall. Branchlets 4-8 mm thick, with minute hairs intermixed with longer brownish to yellowish hairs. Stipules 0.5-2(-3.5) cm long, brownish-hirsute to whitish-pubescent to yellowish-subsericeous, caducous; petiole 1.5-5.5 cm long; blade coriaceous, elliptic (to obovate) to narrowly elliptic (to obovate), 9-26(-33) x 5-13(-17.5) cm, apex rounded to subacute, sometimes subacuminate, base (sub)cordate to rounded, margin (sub)entire, scabridulous to smooth, and (sparsely) puberulous to hirtellous on the main veins to glabrescent above, hirsute to hirtellous on the main veins beneath, and hirtellous to puberulous on the smaller veins beneath; secondary veins (9-)11-16 pairs, reticulum beneath more or less prominent. Figs usually in pairs in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 1-2.5 cm in diam. puberulous to hirtellous, often wrinkled when dry, at maturity greenish; peduncle (0.2-)0.5-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 2 (or 3), (2-)3-4 mm long; ostiole 2-2.5 mm in diam., surrounded by a triangular or circular rim.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 19.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

A pioneer plant in rainforests, growing in open and secondary growth areas.
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Hardiness (USDA) 10-12

Usage

Uses medicinal wood
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Cultivation

Can be grown by seedlings.
Mode seedlings
Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Images

Ficus gomelleira unspecified picture

Distribution

Ficus gomelleira world distribution map, present in Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Ficus gomelleira threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:852913-1
WFO ID wfo-0000688526
COL ID 6HX68
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 734309
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR)

Synonyms

Urostigma doliarium Urostigma gomelleira Ficus gomelleira Ficus acarouaniensis Ficus schultesii Ficus doliaria Ficus fulvistipula