Ficus mucuso Welw. ex Ficalho
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Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
Photo: Bart Wursten
Mpunga Rangercamp camp area, Moribane Forest
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Synonyms:
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Ficus corylifolia Warb. Ficus sidifolia Welw. ex Hiern
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Common names:
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Forest sycomore fig (English)
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Frequency:
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Very rare |
Status:
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Native |
Description:
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Tall evergreen tree, up to 30 m high, trunk straight with prominent butresses; branches spreading into an open crown; bark, smooth, brown, with prominent ring marks and lenticels; white latex present; young branches and growing points with long orange-brown hairs. Leaves
ovate to almost round, 6-17 cm long, rough with short stiff hairs above, hairy beneath, cordate and 3-veined at the base; margin sometimes irregularly toothed particularly when young; petiole 2-9 cm long. Figs ovoid to globose, 3-5 cm in diameter when fresh, hairy, dark orange, borne on leafless branchlets up to 30 cm long out of large branches or the trunk, sweetly scented. |
Notes:
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Only known from a handful of specimens in Moribane Forest nearly 1800 km from its nearest known locality. |
Derivation of specific name:
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mucuso: after the Angolan town of Mucuso where the type specimen was found. |
Habitat:
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In evergreen forest. |
Altitude range: |
500 m (approx) |
Flowering time: | |
Worldwide distribution:
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In West- and Central Africa to Uganda, Tanzania and northern Angola with an isolated few specimens from Mozambique. |
Mozambique distribution:
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MS |
Growth form(s):
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Endemic status:
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Red data list status:
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Insects associated with this species:
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Spot characters:
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Display spot characters for this species |
Content last updated: |
Friday 26 April 2019 |
Literature:
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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).
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African Plants: A Photo Guide (Senckenberg):
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Copyright: Mark Hyde, Bart Wursten, Petra Ballings and Meg Coates Palgrave 2007-24
Hyde, M.A., Wursten, B.T., Ballings, P. & Coates Palgrave, M.
(2024).
Flora of Mozambique: Species information: Ficus mucuso. https://www.mozambiqueflora.com/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=229770, retrieved 21 November 2024
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