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Published In: The Cyclopaedia; or, universial dictionary of arts, . . . 14: Ficus no. 45. 1810. (Cycl.) Name publication detailView in Biodiversity Heritage Library
 

Project Name Data (Last Modified On 6/2/2011)
Acceptance : Accepted
Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: ABDUL GHAFOOR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr.Per.: May-September.
Type: Type: Smith Herbarium sheet No. 1610.40 (LINN).
Distribution: Distribution: Pakistan. (N. W. Hills, Kashmir), Northern India, Bangla Desh, Burma, China.
Comment/Acknowledgements: It is a highly variable and common wild species of our area. The plant is found creeping on-rocks and in crevices or climbing on other trees with the help of adventitious roots, up to c. 2300 m from sea level. The figs are said to be eaten.
Illustration: Ficus sarmentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Sm. (Illustration)
Map Location: B-6 Chitral, Laram, 7000 ft., Gatacre 17540 (E); B-7 Hazara Dist.: c. 6 miles from Kaghan on way to Naran, growing among rock cervices, shrub, Saood Omer, S. Nazimuddin & A. Wahid 709 (KUH); Sothian Gali, Siran Valley, ± 6000 ft., M.A. Siddiqi, Nasir & Zaffar 4080 (RAW); Dadar Nala, ± 4100 ft., climber, Y. Nasir & Khan 9610a (RAW); Hazara, Nilishang, nullah West of fort, c. 4000 ft., in cliffs, sterile shoots and bushy fertile ones as in Ivy, 22 Sept. 1958, Butt 1372 (E); Swat Dist.: Khamba, between Jahanabad & Jabba, climber on rocks, fruits present, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 4703 (KUH); C-7 Rawalpindi Dist.: Murree, 1960, McVean sm. (E); Azad Kashmir, jullah, 8 km from T. Khet, Mohd Sadiq 50 (KUH).

 

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A large, woody creeper or toot climber, with ashy grey to brown bark. Young twigs brownish-pubescent when growing in damp shady places otherwise almost glabrous. Leaves with 8-12 (-15) mm long, hairy petiole; lamina variable, ovate-oblong to ovate-lanceolate or ± elliptic, 2.5-10 (-12) cm long, 1.5-4.5 cm broad, 3-costate at the rounded, cordate, or ± cuneate base, margins entire, apex acute or acuminate, dorsally glabrous, pubescent to glabrescent beneath, lateral nerves 5-8 pairs, bulging underneath, intercostals irregular; stipules linear to ovate-lanceolate, 6-10 mm long, brownish villose. Hypanthodia usually solitary rarely paired, axillary, sessile to shortly peduncled, globose to ovoid or obovoid, 8-15 mm in diameter, warted or wrinkled, minutely hairy, subtended by 3, ovate, acute usually reflexed basal bracts, apical orifice narrow, covered with minute bracts. Male flowers: pedicellate, dispersed among the gall flowers; sepals 4, oblong-obovate, c. 1.5 mm long, hairy on margins; stamens 2 (-3), filaments united, anthers ovate, pointed. Female flowers: sessile, sepals as in male; ovary ovoid-obovoid, style subterminal, short. Figs usually globose or obovoid, 10-20 mm in diameter, orange-red.
 
 
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