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Ficus nymphaeifolia Mill.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Trees 7-3 5 m. tall, glabrous. Twigs 4-13 mm. in diameter, glabrous or minutely puberulent. Stipules to 40 mm. long, lanceolate or deltoid, glabrous or minutely puberulent, or glaucous. Lamina 6.5-20 cm. wide X 9-30 cm. long, ovate or ovate-rotund; apex acute, broadly acute, rounded, or sometimes shortly acumi-nate; base cordate; lateral veins (4-) 5-11 pairs, departing from the midrib at an angle from 100-400; basal veins departing from the midrib at an angle of 200 or less; inter-costals not prominent. Petiole 30-200 mm. long, 1/2-1/4 the length of the lamina. Figs 15-25 mm. in diameter, globose, minutely puberulent or glaucous, borne among the leaves; color greenish, with purple spots; peduncle obsolete to 5 mm. long; basal bracts 4-19 mm. long, deltoid or ovate, connate, minutely puberulent or glaucous; ostiole 2-3 mm. in diameter, probably plane with the surface, but in dried material fre-quently raised, or surrounded by a more or less distinct ring of receptacular tissue.
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Tree up to 30 (or more?) m tall. Branchlets 3-8(-16) mm thick, glabrous or sparsely, minutely puberulous. Stipules 1-2.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous, caducous; petiole 5-12(-20) cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous with appressed brown hairs; blade coriaceous, ovate to elliptic, sometimes suborbicular or narrowly elliptic, 9-25(-32) x 7.5-17.5(-24) cm, apex rounded, obtuse, subacute or shortly acuminate, base cordate, sometimes to rounded, margin entire, glabrous above, glabrous or minutely puberulous with appressed brown hairs beneath; secondary veins 8-13 pairs. Figs in pairs in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 1-2.5 cm in diam., minutely puberulous, at maturity greenish, sessile or occasionally up to 0.4 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts 2, 5-8 mm long; ostiole 4-8 mm in diam., more or less prominent.
Life form perennial
Growth form tree
Growth support epiphyte hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
Pollination entomogamy
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Mature height (meter) 15.0
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Photosynthetic pathway c3

Environment

Young coastal plain, savannah and rain forests.
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

Usage

Uses material medicinal
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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

Leaf

Ficus nymphaeifolia leaf picture by cristian gaviria londoño (cc-by-sa)
Ficus nymphaeifolia leaf picture by tugdual herve (cc-by-sa)
Ficus nymphaeifolia leaf picture by tugdual herve (cc-by-sa)

Distribution

Ficus nymphaeifolia world distribution map, present in Antigua and Barbuda, Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba, Belize, Bolivia (Plurinational State of), Brazil, Colombia, Costa Rica, Dominica, Ecuador, Guadeloupe, French Guiana, Guyana, Honduras, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Sri Lanka, Montserrat, Martinique, Nicaragua, Panama, Peru, Poland, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, United States of America, and Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)

Conservation status

Ficus nymphaeifolia threat status: Least Concern

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:853301-1
WFO ID wfo-0000689484
COL ID 6HYKH
BDTFX ID -
INPN ID 629736
Wikipedia (EN) Link
Wikipedia (FR) Link

Synonyms

Urostigma nymphaefolium Ficus duquei Ficus ierensis Ficus anguina Ficus nymphaeifolia Ficus nymphoides Ficus duquei var. obtusiloba Ficus involuta var. urbaniana Ficus urbaniana
WorldFloraDB 2024