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Ficus superba
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Family:
MORACEAE
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Citation: Ficus superba Miq., Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 2: 200. 1866; Priyadarsan, Journ. Bombay Nat. Hist. Soc. 96: 492. 1999.
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Description:
Large glabrous stranglers, without aerial roots, up to a height of ca 20-25 m. Leaves in alternate helix, towards the tip of twigs, 10-25 x 5.8 cm, elliptic, acutely acuminate at apex, acumen 0.8-1 cm long, obtuse at base, dark green, glabrous, slightly coriaceous, entire, slightly undulating on the margin, 3 ribbed at the base, 8-10 pairs of lateral, slender, prominent nerves, middle ones at an angle of 60-800 to the midrib, brochidodromous, tertiaries percurrent, forked and convex; stipules short, blunt, villous and caducous; petiole 5-9 cm long, always longer than the width of lamina. Figs in cauliflorous clusters of 2-6, usually produced on short, perennial tubercles born on the older twigs well below the node, pedunculate, peduncle 0.5-1.0 cm, globose, 1.0-1.2 cm when ripe, green with pale spots in early stages, becoming creamy white to purple; basal bracts 3, triangular and deciduous; male flowers ostiolar, sessile, monandrous, with double anther sacs and perianth of 3 tepals fused at the base.
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Habit:
Shrub
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Flowering & Fruiting:
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District(s):
Palakkad, Wayanad
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
South East Asia to Australia
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Aquatic:
No
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Epiphyte(s):
No
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Saprophyte:
No
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Stem parasite:
No
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Root parasite:
No
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Flower colour(s):
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Weed:
No
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Monocot/Dicot:
Dicotyledonous Plants
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Exotic:
No
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Garden:
No
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Edible:
No
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Vegetable:
No
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Endemic to:
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IUCN status:
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Altitude:
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Localities:
Shoranur, Vaytri
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