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Published In: Flora Aegyptiaco-Arabica 179. 1775. (Fl. Aegypt.-Arab.) Name publication detailView in BotanicusView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

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Contributor Text: ABDUL GHAFOOR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per.: May-November.
Type: Type: N. Yemen “Ad Uahfat, Herb. Forsskal (C)”.
Distribution: Distribution: Nepal, N. & N.W. India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Iran, Arabian Peninsula, Somalia, Sudan, Ethiopia and S. Egypt.
Comment/Acknowledgements: This is a highly variable and common wild fig occurring in N.W. Hills up to 2500 m on hot dry slopes in clay-loam soils in Baluchistan, Punjab and North Western Frontier Province and Kashmir. Two subspecies are recoginzed. The type subspecies from E. Africa and Saudi Arabia has more elongate, distinctly acute or acuminate leaves with slight pubescence. Our material belongs to ssp. virgata (Roxb.) Borwicz (l.c. 12) with virgate shoots, leaves longer than broad and densely pubescent beneath. It is sometimes confused with F. carica. It is also cultivated for its edible fruits which are demulcent and laxative end are used in diseases of lungs and the bladder.
Illustration: Ficus palmata Forssk. (Illustration)
Map Location: A-7 Gilgit Dist.: Sassi, c. 27 miles from Gilgit on way to Skardu, tree, c. 3 m high, Saood Omer, S. Nazimuddin & A. Wahid 833 (KUH); B-6 Chitral Dist.: Guest house, Chitral, tree, c. 3.5 m tall, dark puple edible fruits present, Kamal Akhter Malik & S. Nazimuddin 1410 (KUH); Dir Dist.: Bibiagole, c. 10½ miles from Dir on way to. Tamir Garh, cult. tree, c. 9 m tall with unripe green fruits, Sultanul Abedin 8193 (KUH); Near Dir, shrub, c. 2 m tall, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 6454 (KUH); B-7 Swat Dist.: 8 miles from Shangla on way to Kalam, erect shrub, c. 2 m tall, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4677 (KUH); Hazara Dist.: 3 miles from Abbotabad on way to Havelian, tree, c. 6 m tall, Hypenthodia green,. M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1999 (KUH); Mardan Dist.: near Malakand, soil sandy clay loam, under-tree, erect, c. 3 m, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1687 (KUH); Hazara Dist.: c. 5 miles from Kaghan on way to Balakot, tree, c. 3 m high, Saood Omer & S. Nazimuddin 711; 733 (KUH); c. 3 miles from Abbotabad on way to Nathiagali, Saood Omer & S. Nazimuddin 1108 (KUH); Abbotabad, abundant and wild, 7.5.1952, S.M.A. Kazmi s.n. (KUH); C-6 Peshawar Dist.: University Campus, Peshawar, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 5775 (KUH); bid, 5 m tall, tree, S. Nazimuddin & S. Abedin 1198 (KUH); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Moghal Garden, Wah, S. Nazimuddin & S. Abedin 1313 (KUH); Near Simly. Dam, N. of Rawalpindi, 2.5-3 m tall, fruits present, A. Ghafoor 960 (KUH); Sargodha Dist.: Uchali, salt range, erect shrub, c. 1.5 m, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4503 (KUH); D-5 Zhob Dist.: c. 20 miles from Zhob on way to Shinghar, cult. tree, c. 3 m tall, Saood Omer & A. Ghafoor 1666 (KUH); Loralai dist.: c.10 km from Loralai on way to Qila Saifullah, c. 3-5 m tall with green hypanthodia, Saood Omer & A. Ghafoor 1630 (KUH); Mehrab Tangi, 4000 ft., 6 April, 1889, J.H. Lace 3492 (E); Dora Ismail Khan, 11.5.1880, Coll. unknown s.n. (E).

 

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A large deciduous shrub or small tree, up to 10 m tall. Truck and branches. without aerial roots, bark smooth, brownish-grey, young twigs densely hairy. Leaves with 1.5-6 (-7) cm long, softly tomentose petiole; basins ± membranous, broadly ovate to suborbicular or orbicular, (2-) 2.5-12.5 (-14.3) cm long. and broad, 3-5 (-6)-costate at the cuneate to rotundate or truncate to ± cordate base, mostly undivided or sometimes palmately 3-S: partite, dentate to ± serrate, acute or ± obtuse, upper surface scabrid, soft hairy on lower side to glabrate,. lateral nerves 3-5 (-6) pairs, raised below, intercostals parallel to zigzag; stipules ovate, 6-10 mm long, acute. Hypanthodia solitary or sometimes paired, axillary, on c. 1-2.5 an long, tomentose peduncles, subglobose to pear-shaped, 12-20 mm in diam., tomentose, subtended by 3, deltoid, acute basal bracts, apical orifice umbonate. Male flowers: numerous in the upper half, pedicellate; sepals 4-5, free, lanceolate, hairy; stamens 3-6. Female flowers: basal, numerous; sepals 5, basally united, hairy; ovary ovoid with subterminal, long hairy style. Figs constricted or gradually narrowed at base, 1.5-2.5 cm long, yellow or purple, hairy.
 
 
 
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