Ficus verruculosa
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| Ficus verruculosa | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Plantae |
| (unranked): | Angiosperms |
| (unranked): | Eudicots |
| (unranked): | Rosids |
| Order: | Rosales |
| Family: | Moraceae |
| Genus: | Ficus |
| Species: | F. verruculosa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ficus verruculosa Warb. | |
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
- ↑ http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=120450
- ↑ http://www.figweb.org/Ficus/Subgenus_Urostigma/Section_Urostigma/Subsection_Urostigma/Ficus_verruculosa.htm
- ↑ http://www.ville-ge.ch/musinfo/bd/cjb/africa/details.php?langue=an&id=24157
- ↑ "Fig-eating by vertebrate frugivores: a global review", MIKE SHANAHAN, SAMSON SO, STEPHEN G. COMPTON and RICHARD CORLETT, Biol. Rev. (2001), 76, pp. 529572
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