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Monoecious or dioecious, trees, shrubs, lianes or epiphytes. Latex milky, rarely watery. Stipules fully or partly amplexicaul or lateral. Leaves almost always alternate, rarely subopposite or subwhorled; lamina with glandular spots in the axils of at least the basal lateral veins beneath or at the base of the midrib beneath. Figs solitary or in pairs, occurring in the leaf axils, or on short spurs on the lesser branches or on leafless branches on the older wood and trunk. Figs composed of an urceolate receptacle with an apical opening (ostiole), the flowers enclosed within. Male flowers: perianth segments 2-6; stamens 1-3. Female flowers: perianth segments 2-6(-7), stigmas 1 or 2. Fruits achene-like or more often ± drupaceous; at the fruiting stage the fig wall becomes ± fleshy. Derivation of name: the classical Latin name for a fig. Worldwide: c. 750 species in tropical and warm regions DRC: 26 taxa. Insects associated with this genus:
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Species | Botanical divisions | Content |
amadiensis De Wild. | ||
asperifolia Miq. | Description, Image | |
barteri Sprague | Description, Image | |
craterostoma Mildbr. & Burret | Description, Image | |
cyathistipula Warb. subsp. cyathistipula | Description, Image | |
glumosa Delile | Description, Image | |
ingens (Miq.) Miq. | Description, Image | |
laurifolia Lam. | Description, Image | |
natalensis Hochst. subsp. leprieurii (Miq.) C.C.Berg | Description, Image | |
natalensis Hochst. subsp. natalensis | Description, Image | |
oreodryadum Mildbr. | ||
ottoniifolia (Miq.) Miq. [Agg] | ||
persicifolia Welw. ex Warb | Description, Image | |
pseudomangifera Hutch. | ||
sansibarica Warb. subsp. macrosperma (Mildbr. & Burret) C.C.Berg | Description, Image | |
saussureana DC. | ||
stuhlmannii Warb. | Description, Image | |
sur Forssk. | Description, Image | |
sycomorus L. [Agg] | Description, Image | |
sycomorus L. subsp. gnaphalocarpa (Miq.) C.C. Berg | Description, Image | |
sycomorus L. subsp. sycomorus | Description, Image | |
thonningii Blume | Description, Image | |
tremula Warb. subsp. acuta (De Wild.) C.C.Berg | ||
trichopoda Baker | Description, Image | |
vallis-choudae Delile | Description, Image | |
verruculosa Warb. | Description, Image |