Biology:Ficus verruculosa
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Short description: Species of flowering plant
| Ficus verruculosa | |
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Scientific classification 
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| 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 Warb.
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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
- ↑ "Flora of Zimbabwe: Species information: Ficus verruculosa" (in en). http://www.zimbabweflora.co.zw/speciesdata/species.php?species_id=120450.
- ↑ "Ficus verruculosa - FigWeb". http://www.figweb.org/Ficus/Subgenus_Urostigma/Section_Urostigma/Subsection_Urostigma/Ficus_verruculosa.htm.
- ↑ CJB, CJB, DSIC, Cyrille Chatelain -. "CJB - African plant database - Detail". 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, Biological Reviews (2001), 76, pp. 529572
External links
Wikidata ☰ Q3071427 entry
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