Ficus sarmentosa – eFlora of India

June 6, 2013
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Ficus sarmentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Sm., Cycl. 14: 45 1810. (Syn: Ficus cabur Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.; Ficus foveolata (Wall. ex Miq.) Miq.; Ficus nepalensis Spreng.; Ficus oblongifolia D.Don; Ficus ovata D.Don [Illegitimate]; Ficus reticulata (Miq.) Miq. [Illegitimate]; Pogonotrophe verrucosa Miq. (Unresolved));

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India (Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu & Kashmir, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Punjab, Sikkim, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, W. Bengal), Bangladesh, Bhutan, China, Indochina, Japan, Korea, Myanmar, Nepal, Pakistan, Taiwan as per Synopsis of the Genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India Lal Babu Chaudhary*, Jana Venkata Sudhakar, Anoop Kumar, Omesh Bajpai, Rinkey Tiwari and G. V. S. Murthy- Taiwania, 57(2): 193-216, 2012;
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SK 2889 21 March 2021- Ficus: 3 images.

Location: Godawari, Lalitpur

Date: 11 March 2021

Altitude: 2100m.
Habitat : Wild

Any chance for Ficus hederacea ?

I did not find distribution for this sp. above 1500m. and I guess leaf pattern looks different.

Acumen of leaves too long for Ficus hederacea, therefore this should be Ficus sarmentosa.

But F. sarmentosa is a shrub whereas this is a climber !

Ficus sarmentosa is a shrub or a woody vine (woody creeper or toot climber).

Thank you … We take it as Ficus sarmentosa Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.

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References:

The Plant List GRIN Flora of Pakistan Annonated checklist of the flowering plants of Nepal Flora of China Wikipedia

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