Habit: Shrub, tree, [vine, occasionally rooted on other pls], unarmed; monoecious.
Stem: buds inside conic stipules; stipule scar encircling stem.
Leaf: entire or lobed, deciduous or evergreen; major veins palmate.
Inflorescence: flowers internal, enclosed in an obovoid [spheric] inflorescence receptacle with a small, scaly opening.
Pistillate Flower: style simple.
Fruit: achenes many within fleshy inflorescence receptacle.
Species In Genus: +- 800 species: tropics, subtropics.
Etymology: (Latin: fig)
Note: Pollination generally by small wasps. Reports of
Ficus pseudocarica Miq. and
Ficus palmata Forssk. based on misidentified specimens of
Ficus carica (Whittemore 2006 Sida 22:769--775).
Jepson eFlora Author: Alan T. Whittemore & Elizabeth McClintock
Index of California Plant Names (ICPN; linked via the Jepson Online Interchange)
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