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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 deciduous 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, Namibia (Caprivi), D.R. Congo, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. |
Zimbabwe distribution: | E |
Growth form(s): | Tree. |
Endemic status: | |
Red data list status: | Critically Endangered |
Insects associated with this species: | Elisabethiella platyscapa (Pollinated by this insect) |
Spot characters: | Display spot characters for this species |
Images last updated: | Friday 7 April 2006 |
Literature: |
Berg C.C. & Wiebes J.T. (1992). African fig trees and fig wasps. Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Amsterdam Berg, C.C. (1991). Moraceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(6) Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2003). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa Umdaus Press, South Africa Pages 204 - 207. (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 91. (Includes a picture). Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 142. Golding, J.S. (ed.) (2002). Zimbabwe Plant Red Data List. Southern African Plant Red Data Lists. SABONET 14 Page 166. Mannheimer, C. & Curtis B. (2009). Le Roux and Müller's Field Guide to the Trees and Shrubs of Namibia Macmillan Education, Windhoek, Namibia. Pages 20 - 21. (Includes a picture). 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. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 88. Timberlake, J.R. & Childes, S.L. (2004). Biodiversity of the Four Corners Area: Technical Reviews Volume Two (Chapter 5-15) Appendix 5-1: Plant Checklist Occasional Publications in Biodiversity 15 Page 219. |
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