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Published In: Diagnoses Plantarum Orientalium Novarum, ser. 1 7: 96. 1846. (Diagn. Pl. Orient., ser. 1,) Name publication detail
 

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Project Data     (Last Modified On 6/3/2011)
Contributor Text: ABDUL GHAFOOR
Flower/Fruit: Fl. & Fr. Per. : May-Aug.
Type: Syntypes: S.W. Iran, Kotschy 91 (B, E, H); 91a (E, H, JE).
Distribution: Distribution: Iran, Pakistan (Baluchistan, Sind) and Afghanistan.
Comment/Acknowledgements: Browicz l.c. discussed the variation in Ficus carica, Ficus johannis and Ficus palmate complex. In our area Ficus johannis seems to be confined to Baluchistan province with geographical overlapping in Northern Baluchistan (Zohb Dist.) where Ficus palmate also occurs. Two subspecies viz. ssp. Johannis and ssp. Afghanica (Warb.) Browicz have been recognized on the basis of size and lobing of leaves and petiole length. Our material, however, belongs to ssp. Johannis.

The fruit is eaten and the plants are grazed by goats, sheep, camels. white milk is used for turning milk into cheese.

Illustration: Ficus johannis Boiss. (Illustration)
Map Location: D-4 Quetta Dist.: Reserved forest valley of Hazarganji, near Quetta, soil sandy loam, c. 1.8 m tall, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1322 (KUH); Wali Tangi, near Quetta, protected area, small tree, c. 3 m tall, Saood Omer & A. Ghafoor 1821 (KUH); 17 miles from Quetta on way to Naushki, tree-like, sandy soil, Sultanul Abedin 4959 (KUH); Maslakh Range, tree, 10.6.1983, Rasool Bakhsh s.n. (KUH); 17 miles from Quetta on way to Nauskhi, tree-like, sandy soil, Sultanul Abedin 4959 (KUH); c. 10 Km from Ghazaband scouts post on way to Maslakh Range, Quetta, shrub, c. 1.25 m tall, Saood Omer & A. Ghafoor 1377 (KUH); Sibbi Dist.: c. 20 K. from Kutch on way to Ziarat, shrub, Saood Omer & A. Ghafoor 1605 (KUH); E-5 Sibbi Dist.: About 12 miles from Harnai towards Loralai, soil sandy loam, tree, c. 3 m tall, M. Qaiser & A. Ghafoor 1482 (KUH): F-4 Dadu Dist.: Jebel Kambu, Morani nallah, 10 miles from Karchat, M. Qaiser, S.I. Ali & Saood Omer 7234 (KUH).

 

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A large much branched shrub or small tree, upto 3(4) m tall. Trunk and branches without aerial roots, bark grey or brownish-grey, young shoots reddish-brown, puberulous to glabrescent. Leaves with 5-20 (-30) mm long, ± hairy to glabrous petiole; lamina variable, broadly ovate to orbicular, (2.5-) 3-7.5 (-8.5) and broad, 3-5-costate at the cordate to truncate base, palmately deeply, 3-5-lobes narrow to broadly oblong, 1.543 cm long, 24 cm broad, dentate serrate to shallowly incised, slightly hairy to glabrescent-scabrous beneath, scabrid above; stipules lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, purplish, puberulous. Hypanthodia axillary, solitary, borne on 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, puberulous, peduncles, pyriform to subglobose, 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, 10-12 mm in diam., minutely puberulous, sessile to stipitate, stipe upto 5 mm long; subtended by 3 bracts, apical orifice wide surrounded by several bracts. Male ostiolar, pedicellate; sepals whitish, 4.5, thin, free, stamens 2. Female numerous, subsessile; sepals 5, free; ovary ± triangular, style long, stigma bifid. Figs pale-purple, pyriform to globose, c. 10-12 mm in diem., puberulous to glabrous.
 
 
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