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Ficus fischeri
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Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare
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| Synonyms: |
Ficus kiloneura Hornby |
| Common names: | Muwonde (Manyika name for various figs) (Shona) Poplar-leaved fig (English) |
| Frequency: | Rare; only 1 tree known in the wild |
| Status: | Native |
| Description: |
Medium to large evergreen tree, often starting epiphytically but often becoming terrestrial and free-standing. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, 8-15 cm, dark to bright olive green above, paler below, thinly leathery, hairless; base truncate to shallowly cordate; veins yellowish, midrib raised below; margin entire. Fruits singly or in pairs in the leaf axils or on old leaf scars, pedunculate, subspherical, c. 20 mm, sometimes with small warts or minute reddish hairs, yellowish green. |
| Notes: | In Zimbabwe it is confined to a sandstone escarpment near the Chirinda Forest. |
| Derivation of specific name: | fischeri: named after Dr Gustav Fischer (1848-1886), German doctor and naturalist, who collected in Kenya and Tanzania |
| Habitat: | In miombo and mixed decidous woodland. |
| Altitude range: (metres) | |
| Flowering time: | Dec - Mar |
| Worldwide distribution: | Angola, Botswana, Caprivi - Namibia, DRC, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe |
| Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
| Growth form: | T |
| Endemic status: | |
| Red data list status: | Critically Endangered |
| Insects (whose larvae eat this species): | |
| Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
| Content last updated: | Friday 7 April 2006 |
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Biodiversity Explorer (Biodiversity of southern Africa): Ficus fischeri
EOL (Encyclopedia of Life): Ficus fischeri
ePIC (electronic Plant Information Center): Ficus fischeri
Flora Zambesiaca web site: Ficus fischeri
Google: Web - Images - Scholar
GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) taxonomy for plants report for Ficus fischeri
IPNI (International Plant Names Index): Ficus fischeri
JSTOR Plant Science: Ficus fischeri
Kew Herbarium catalogue: Ficus fischeri
Tropicos: Ficus fischeri
West African Plants database: Ficus fischeri
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