Ficus vallis-choudae Delile

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Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
National Botanic Garden, Harare

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
Morumbodzi river crossing, road to Morumbodzi Falls, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa.

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
Morumbodzi river crossing, road to Morumbodzi Falls, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa.

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
Nhandar River below Nhancuco, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
Nhandar River below Nhancuco, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Bart Wursten
Nhandar River below Nhancuco, lower slopes Mt Gorongosa

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, Protea Hill Farm, grown from seed collected at Chipata, Katopola.

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, grown from seed collected at Chipata, Katopola.

Ficus vallis-choudae

Photo: Mike Bingham
Lusaka, grown from seed collected at Chipata, Katopola.

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Synonyms: Ficus schweinfurthii Miq.
Sycomorus schimperiana Miq.
Common names: False cape fig (English) Haroni fig (English)
Frequency: Rare in Zimbabwe.
Status: Native
Description:
Tree to 20 m tall, terrestrial. Leaves ovate to broadly ovate, upper surface rough to the touch, thin-leathery with conspicuous cream-green venation. Figs solitary in leaf axils, up to 4 cm in diameter, densely velvety, turning yellow to orange when ripe, with faint reddish stripes.
Notes: In Zimbabwe, known only from the Haroni-Rusitu area.
Derivation of specific name: vallis-choudae: of the Chouda Valley in Ethiopia where the type specimen was collected.
Habitat: In riverine and swamp forest, occasional in evergreen forest.
Altitude range: (metres) 300 - 750 m
Flowering time:
Worldwide distribution: Widespread in subsaharan Africa as far as Angola, Zambia, Zimbabwe and Mozambique.
Zimbabwe distribution: E
Growth form(s): Tree.
Endemic status:
Red data list status: Endangered
Insects associated with this species: Ceratosolen megacephalus (Pollinated by this insect)
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Literature:

Berg, C.C. (1990). Annotated checklist of the Ficus species of the African floristic region, with special reference and a key to the taxa of Southern Africa. Kirkia 13(2) Page 257.

Berg, C.C. (1991). Moraceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(6) Pages 53 - 54.

Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2003). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa Umdaus Press, South Africa Pages 71 - 75. (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 78. (Includes a picture).

Chapano, C. & Mamuto, M. (2003). Plants of the Chimanimani District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 27. As Ficus vallischoudae

Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 152.

Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 234.

Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 166.

Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 63.

Strugnell, A.M. (2006). A Checklist of the Spermatophytes of Mount Mulanje, Malawi Scripta Botanica Belgica 34 National Botanic Garden of Belgium Page 124.

White, F., Dowsett-Lemaire, F. & Chapman, J.D. (2001). Evergreen forest flora of Malawi Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Page 393. (Includes a picture).


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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave, 2002-24

Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M. (2024). Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Ficus vallis-choudae.
https://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=120440, retrieved 29 March 2024

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