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Ficus caulocarpa
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Family:
MORACEAE
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Citation: Ficus caulocarpa Miq., Ann. Mus. Lugd.-Bat. 3: 268. 1867; Ansari, Fl. Kasaragod Div. 354. 1985; Sasidh., Fl. Periyar Tiger Reserve 392. 1998; Sasidh. & Jomy., Rheedea 9: 77. 1999.
Ficus infectoria Roxb. var. caulocarpa (Miq.) King, Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. (Calcutta) 1: 63,Pl.79. 1887.
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Description:
Large trees with aerial roots, bole buttressed; bark greyish-brown, smooth; blaze dull-yellow; exudation milky; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate spiral; stipule 12-15 mm long, lateral, ovate, grey-puberulus; petiole 40-80 mm long, slender, grooved above, swollen at base, articulated, glabrous, deciduous at base of the lamina; lamina 10-19 x 4-10 cm, ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, base round, subcordate or slightly cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from base; lateral nerves 7-14 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, 2-8 in the axils of leaf scars and on the twigs just behind; peduncle 1-4 mm long, puberulous, basal bracts 3 free or usually jointed in a glabrous or puberulous disc of 3-4 mm across, splitting into 4-6 lobes, persistent, body subglobose, glabrous, orifice closed by 3 flat or slightly prominent apical bracts, subumbonate on drying; internal bristles chaffy-vesicular, abundant; male flowers ostiolar, in 2-3 rings, sessile; tepals 1-2, saccate-lanceolate, free or jointed; gall flowers sessile or shortly stalked; female flowers sessile; tepals 3-4, reddish-brown, lanceolate or spathulate, free to almost wholly gamophyllous; ovary superior, sessile to shortly stalked, dark red. Syconium 5-8 mm across, white, globose.
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Habit:
Tree
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Flowering & Fruiting:
March-May
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District(s):
Kasaragode, Idukki
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Medicinal:
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Habitat:
Semi-evergreen forests
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Distribution:
Indo-Malesia to Solomon Islands
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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:
Kokkara, Payyavur
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