Ficus pseudomangifera Hutch.

Species

Angiosperms > Rosales > Moraceae > Ficus

Characteristics

Tree up to 10 m. tall, hemi-epiphytic.. Leafy twigs 3–6 mm. thick, glabrous or minutely brownish puberulous, periderm not flaking off.. Leaves in spirals or tending to distichous; lamina coriaceous, oblong to lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 8–32 × 2–9 cm., apex acuminate, sometimes sharply so, base rounded to ± cordate or acute, margin entire; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 14–27 pairs, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins or reticulate; petiole 1–3 cm. long, ± 3 mm. thick; stipules 2–5 mm. long, ± densely greyish to yellowish or brownish strigose to subsericeous.. Figs up to 6 together on short spurs in the leaf-axils or just below the leaves; peduncle 0.3–0.8 cm. long; basal bracts 2–3 mm. long, persistent.. Receptacle ± globose, 0.6–1.2 cm. in diameter when fresh, 0.3–0.7 cm. when dry, minutely puberulous, orange to red at maturity.
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A large forest tree or epiphyte.
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Growth support hemiepiphyte
Foliage retention evergreen
Sexuality monoecy
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Mature height (meter) 10.0
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Hardiness (USDA) 9-12

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Germination duration (days) 15 - 90
Germination temperacture (C°) 21 - 26
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Distribution

Ficus pseudomangifera world distribution map, present in Cameroon, Congo, Gabon, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, and Uganda

Identifiers

LSID urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:583984-1
WFO ID wfo-0000689881
COL ID 6HY9J
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Synonyms

Ficus pseudomangifera Ficus mangiferoides