Ficus glumosa Delile

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Maleme Dam, Matobo National Park

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Road to Nswatugi Cave, Matobo National Park

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Besna Kobila farm, Matobo

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Synonyms:	Ficus montana Sim Ficus rehmannii Warb. Ficus sonderi Miq.
Common names:	Hairy rock fig (English) Mountain rock fig (English)
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Description:	Usually a small tree, most commonly as a lithophytic rock-splitter. Bark pale greyish-cream, smooth and flaking. Leaves oblong to broadly elliptic, more rarely ovate or almost round, 4-14 cm, dark green above, paler below, thickly leathery, with long silky hairs on both surfaces, particularly on the veins. Hairs sometimes almost lost on older leaves; base cordate or rounded; veins prominent below; margin entire. Fruits singly or in pairs in the leaf axils pedunculate, spherical to ellipsoid, 8-15 mm in diameter, variously hairy, covered in small small warts, pink to red when ripe.
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Derivation of specific name:	glumosa: bearing glumes, referring to the prominent stipules, which enclose the leaf bud. Note that a glume normally is one of the bracts surrounding the flowers of grasses
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Flowering time:	Dec - Apr
Worldwide distribution:	From Senegal in the West and Yemen in the northeast, throughout tropical Africa to northern Namibia and KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.
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Growth form(s):	Tree.
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Insects associated with this species:	Elisabethiella glumosae (Pollinated by this insect)
Spot characters:	Display spot characters for this species
Literature:	Berg, C.C. (1991). Moraceae Flora Zambesiaca 9(6) Pages 59 - 60. Burrows, J.E. & Burrows, S.M. (2003). Figs of Southern and South-Central Africa Umdaus Press, South Africa Pages 112 - 115. (Includes a picture). Burrows, J.E., Burrows, S.M., Lötter, M.C. & Schmidt, E. (2018). Trees and Shrubs Mozambique Publishing Print Matters (Pty), Cape Town. Page 81. (Includes a picture). Chapano, C. & Mugarisanwa, N.H. (2003). Plants of the Matobo District National Herbarium and Botanic Garden, Zimbabwe Page 17. Coates Palgrave, K. (revised and updated by Meg Coates Palgrave) (2002). Trees of Southern Africa 3rd edition. Struik, South Africa Page 142. Drummond, R.B. (1975). A list of trees, shrubs and woody climbers indigenous or naturalised in Rhodesia. Kirkia 10(1) Page 234. As Ficus sonderi Mapaura, A. & Timberlake, J. (eds) (2004). A checklist of Zimbabwean vascular plants Southern African Botanical Diversity Network Report No. 33 Sabonet, Pretoria and Harare Page 63. Setshogo, M.P. (2005). Preliminary checklist of the plants of Botswana. Sabonet Report no. 37. Sabonet, Pretoria and Gaborone Page 88. Siebert, S. & Mössmer, M. (Editors) (2002). SABONET Southern Mozambique Expedition 2001; Provisional Plant Checklist of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) and Licuati Forest Reserve (LFR) SABONET News 7(1) Page 27.

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