Ficus verruculosa
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Ficus verruculosa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Plantae |
Clade: | Tracheophytes |
Clade: | Angiosperms |
Clade: | Eudicots |
Clade: | Rosids |
Order: | Rosales |
Family: | Moraceae |
Tribe: | Ficeae |
Genus: | Ficus |
Species: | F. verruculosa
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Binomial name | |
Ficus verruculosa |
Ficus verruculosa, the water fig, is a species of fig from sub-saharan Africa.
It is found from north eastern South Africa, northern Botswana and Namibia to Uganda and west to Nigeria in riverine and swamp fringes or grassland, always near water.[1] It is pollinated by the wasp Platyscapa binghami.[2]
The growth form of Ficus verruculosa is as a shrub, or weak-stemmed, sparsely branched shrub 0.2-0.6 m tall, less often a small tree up to 12m, often forming low, creeping thickets. Leaves oblong to lanceolate, 3.5-20 x 1.5-8.5 cm, leathery, hairless. Figs are produced mostly in pairs in leaf axils, greenish when unripe, ripening to red[3] and are fed on by African green pigeons Treron calvus.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Ficus verruculosa". www.zimbabweflora.co.zw. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
- ^ "Ficus verruculosa - FigWeb". www.figweb.org. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
- ^ CJB, CJB, DSIC, Cyrille Chatelain -. "CJB - African plant database - Detail". www.ville-ge.ch. Retrieved 2017-08-01.
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: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) - ^ "Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", Mike Shanahan, Samson So, Stephen G. Compton and Richard Corlett, Biological Reviews (2001), 76, pp. 529572
External links
[edit]- Dressler, S.; Schmidt, M. & Zizka, G. (2014). "Ficus verruculosa". African plants – a Photo Guide. Frankfurt/Main: Forschungsinstitut Senckenberg.