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Root climbers or creepers. Hypanthodia pedunculate |
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Trees, shrubs or stranglers |
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Hypanthodia globose to ovoid or obovoid, 8-15 mm in diameter |
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1 Ficus sarmentosa |
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Hypanthodia subglobose to pyriform or obovoid-turbinate, 20-30 mm in diameter (cultivated) |
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2 Ficus pumila |
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Hypanthodia borne on trunk or main old branches (cauliflorous) |
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Hypanthodia borne on young branches in leaf axils or behind the leaves (not cauliflorous). |
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Leaves opposite, rarely subopoosite. Figs pale-green or greenish-yellow |
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3 Ficus hispida |
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Leaves alternate. Figs pink, purple-brown or rose-red |
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Leaf-base highly unequal-sided, with a large lower lobe overlapping the petiole. Hypanthodia 10-12 mm in diameter |
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4 Ficus semicordata |
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Leaf base equal sided. Hypanthodia more than 15 mm in diameter |
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| 6 (5) |
Young twigs hollow. Lamina broadly ovate to rotundate-ovate, softly pubescent beneath |
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5 Ficus auriculata |
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Young twigs not hollow. Lamina narrowly ovate-lanceolate to ± elliptic-lanceolate glabrous on both sides. (Cultivated) |
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6 Ficus racemosa |
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Lateral nerves not parallel in leaf blade |
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Lateral nerves parallel in leaf blade |
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Leaves more than 15 cm long; stipules more than 5 cm long. Figs yellowish-brown or dark reddish-brown to purple |
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Leaves less than 15 cm long; stipules less than 1.5 cm long. Figs orange-red. (Cultivated) |
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7 Ficus benjamina |
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Lamina glabrous on both sides. Lateral nerves more than 20 pairs, almost spreading parallel, intercostals absent. (Cultivated) |
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8 Ficus elastica |
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-lamina silvery to rusty dotted beneath. Lateral nerves up to 20 pairs, ± ascending parallel, intercostals present. (Cultivated) |
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9 Ficus macrophylla |
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Leaves fiddle-shaped or pandurate |
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10 Ficus lyrata |
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Leaves not as above |
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Leaves 3-5-lobed |
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Leaves unlobed or slightly lobed |
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Leaf-lobes spathulate, densely soft hairy, especially on nerves beneath, apically few dentate. Petiole frequently more than 2- cm long |
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11 Ficus carica |
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eaf-lobes not spathulate, slightly hairy to glabrescent scabrous beneath. Petiole up to 2 (-3) cm long |
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12 Ficus johannis |
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Hypanthodia pedunculate |
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Hypanthodia sessile or subsessile |
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| 14 (13) |
Leaves rusty or whitish pubescent beneath at least when young, glabrous above |
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Leaves completely glabrous on both sides |
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| 15 (14) |
Hypanthodia 1.5-2 cm in diameter, pinkish-red on maturity |
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13 Ficus benghalensis |
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Hypanthodia less than 1.5-2 cm in diameter, yellow to orange-red or rusty-brown on maturity |
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Leaves ovate to elliptic-oblong, nerve angles without glands beneath. Hypanthodia rusty pubescent, warted. |
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14 Ficus rubiginosa |
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Leaves polymorphic, broadly obovate-oblanceolate, spathulate or elliptic to deltoid, midrib foked or simple and penninerved with glands in forks or axils of nerves beneath. Hypanthodia glabrous. (Cultivated) |
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15 Ficus deltoidea |
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| 17 (14) |
Hypanthodia shortly pedunculate |
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Hypanthodia sessile |
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| 18 (17) |
Petiole up to 1 cm long. Lateral nerves 4-6 pairs. Figs yellow, warty |
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16 Ficus subincisa |
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Petiole more than 1.5 cm long. Lateral nerves more than 6 pairs. Figs pink-purple or reddish |
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Figs hairy with black spots, 12-15 mm in diameter |
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17 Ficus virens |
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Figs glabrous, 8-10 mm in diameter |
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18 Ficus neriifolia |
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Leaves deltoid-ovate with more than 2 cm long acumen |
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Leaves not deltoid-ovate, with less than 2 cm long acumen |
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Leaf acumen about ½ as long as lamina; stipules small |
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19 Ficus religiosa |
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leaf acumen about ¼ as long as lamina; stipules large |
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20 Ficus rumphii |
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Figs up to 10 mm in diameter |
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Figs more than 10 mm in diameter |
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Petiole glandular at tip, articulate to the obtuse-truncate base of lamina |
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22 Ficus tsjahela |
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Petiole neither glandular at tip nor articulate to cuneate base of lamina |
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Lamina glossy-coriaceous, elliptic-ovate to obovate or rhomboid, obtuse to subacute with a blunt short acumen, rarely retuae. (Cultivated) |
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21 Ficus microcarpa |
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Lamina not glossy-coriaceous, lanceolate to narrowly ovate-lanceolate or elliptic-lanceolate with a gradually narrowed long acute acumen |
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18 Ficus neriifolia |
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| 25 (22) |
Petiole with a terminal gland. Lamina acute or ± obtusely short acuminate. Ovary white |
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23 Ficus amplissima |
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Petiole without a terminal gland. Lamina with 10-15 mm long acumen. Ovary reddish brown |
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17 Ficus virens |
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Leaves polymorphic with the midrib forked or simple and penninerved, black glands present in forks or axils of nerves beneath |
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15 Ficus deltoidea |
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Leaves not polymorphic, without glands in the axis of nerves beneath |
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Young shoots, lower surface of lamina and figs. rusty-pubescent |
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14 Ficus rubiginosa |
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Not as above |
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Leaves scabrous above, soft hairy to glabrescent beneath |
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Leaves completely glabrous on both sides |
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Lamina usually longer than broad, serrate, basally cordate |
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11 Ficus carica |
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Lamina nearly as long as broad, dentate-serrate, basally cunsate to rotundate or truncate-subcordate |
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24 Ficus palmata |
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Petiole up to 10 mm long. Lamina with 4-6 pain of lateral nerves. Figs dimorphdic, yellow, warty |
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16 Ficus subincisa |
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Petiole more than 10 mm long. Lamina with 7-15 pairs of lateral nerves. Figs not dimorphic, pink-purple or reddish |
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| 31 (30) |
Petiole articulate to the obtuse-truncate base of lamina. Figs 12-15 mm in diameter |
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17 Ficus virens |
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Petiole not articulate to the cuneate base of lamina. Figs 8-12 mm in diameter |
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18 Ficus neriifolia |
