Ficus Tourn. ex L.

First published in Sp. Pl.: 1059 (1753)
This genus is accepted
The native range of this genus is Tropics & Subtropics.

Distribution

Native to:

Afghanistan, Aldabra, Algeria, Andaman Is., Angola, Argentina Northeast, Argentina Northwest, Aruba, Assam, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Belize, Benin, Bermuda, Bismarck Archipelago, Bolivia, Borneo, Botswana, Brazil North, Brazil Northeast, Brazil South, Brazil Southeast, Brazil West-Central, Burkina, Burundi, Cabinda, Cambodia, Cameroon, Cape Provinces, Cape Verde, Caprivi Strip, Caroline Is., Cayman Is., Central African Republic, Central American Pacific Is., Chad, China North-Central, China South-Central, China Southeast, Christmas I., Cocos (Keeling) Is., Colombia, Comoros, Congo, Cook Is., Costa Rica, Cuba, Cyprus, Djibouti, Dominican Republic, DR Congo, East Himalaya, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Equatorial Guinea, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Fiji, Florida, French Guiana, Gabon, Gambia, Ghana, Gilbert Is., Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Gulf of Guinea Is., Gulf States, Guyana, Hainan, Haiti, Honduras, India, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, Jamaica, Japan, Jawa, Kazan-retto, Kenya, Korea, Kriti, KwaZulu-Natal, Laccadive Is., Laos, Lebanon-Syria, Leeward Is., Lesser Sunda Is., Liberia, Libya, Line Is., Madagascar, Malawi, Malaya, Maldives, Mali, Maluku, Marianas, Marquesas, Marshall Is., Mauritania, Mauritius, Mexican Pacific Is., Mexico Central, Mexico Gulf, Mexico Northeast, Mexico Northwest, Mexico Southeast, Mexico Southwest, Mozambique, Myanmar, Namibia, Nansei-shoto, Nauru, Nepal, Netherlands Antilles, New Caledonia, New Guinea, New South Wales, Nicaragua, Nicobar Is., Niger, Nigeria, Niue, Norfolk Is., North Caucasus, Northern Provinces, Northern Territory, Ogasawara-shoto, Oman, Pakistan, Palestine, Panamá, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Pitcairn Is., Puerto Rico, Queensland, Rodrigues, Rwanda, Réunion, Samoa, Santa Cruz Is., Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Sinai, Society Is., Socotra, Solomon Is., Somalia, South Australia, South China Sea, Southwest Caribbean, Sri Lanka, Sudan-South Sudan, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Suriname, Tadzhikistan, Taiwan, Tanzania, Thailand, Tibet, Togo, Tokelau-Manihiki, Tonga, Transcaucasus, Trinidad-Tobago, Tuamotu, Tubuai Is., Turkmenistan, Turks-Caicos Is., Tuvalu, Türkiye, Uganda, Uruguay, Vanuatu, Venezuela, Venezuelan Antilles, Victoria, Vietnam, Wallis-Futuna Is., West Himalaya, Western Australia, Windward Is., Yemen, Zambia, Zimbabwe

Introduced into:

Alabama, Albania, Arkansas, Ascension, Austria, Azores, Baleares, Bulgaria, California, Canary Is., Chagos Archipelago, Corse, Czechia-Slovakia, Denmark, East Aegean Is., Easter Is., France, Galápagos, Germany, Great Britain, Hawaii, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Juan Fernández Is., Krym, Madeira, Maryland, Massachusetts, Morocco, New Mexico, New York, New Zealand North, New Zealand South, North Carolina, NW. Balkan Pen., Poland, Portugal, Sardegna, Sicilia, South Carolina, Spain, St.Helena, Sweden, Switzerland, Tristan da Cunha, Tunisia, Türkiye-in-Europe, Uzbekistan, Wake I., Western Sahara, Xinjiang

Synonyms

Heterotypic Synonyms

Accepted Species

Classification

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POWO follows these authorities in accepting this name:

  • Berg, C.C. & Villavicencio, X. (2004). Taxonomic studies on Ficus (Moraceae) in the West Indies, extra-Amazonian Brazil, and Bolivia. Ilicifolia 5: 1-130.
  • Chantarasuwan, B., Berg, C.C. & van Welzen, P.C. (2013). A revision of Ficus subsection Urostrigma (Moraceae). Systematic Botany 38: 653-686.
  • Chaudhary, L.B., Sudhakar, J.V., Kumar, A., Bajpai, O., Tiwari, R. & Murthy, G.V.S. (2012). Synopsis of the genus Ficus L. (Moraceae) in India. Taiwania 57: 193-216.
  • Govaerts, R. (2001). World Checklist of Seed Plants Database in ACCESS Genera starting with letter E-F: 1-50919.
  • Pederneiras, L.C. & Romaniuc-Neto, S. (2019). Taxonomic revision of Ficus sect. Pharmacosycea (Moraceae). Systematic Botany Monographs 107: 1-148.

Flora of West Tropical Africa

  • —F.T.A. 6, 2: 78

Flora Zambesiaca

  • C.C. Berg in F.T.E.A., Moraceae: 43 (1989)
  • Corner in Gard. Bull., Singapore 21: 1 (1965).
  • Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 482 (1754).
  • Sp. Pl.: 1059 (1753)
  • in Kirkia13: 253–291 (1990).
  • van Greuning in S. Afr. J. Bot.56, 6: 599–630 (1990).

Flora of Somalia

  • Aweke in Meded. Landbouwhogeschool Wageningen 79-3: 1–115 (1979)
  • Flora Somalia, Vol 2, (1999) Author: by I. Friis [updated by M. Thulin 2008]
  • Friis in Mitt. Inst. Allg. Bot. Hamburg 23a: 407–424 (1990).

Flora of Tropical East Africa

  • L., Gen. Pl., ed. 5: 482 (1754)
  • Sp. Pl.: 1059 (1753)

Sources

  • EBC Common Names

    • Common Names from Kew's Economic Botany Collection https://www.kew.org/science/collections-and-resources/collections/economic-botany-collection
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  • Flora of Somalia

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  • Flora of Tropical East Africa

    • Flora of Tropical East Africa
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  • Flora of the Cayman Islands

    • Flora of the Cayman Islands
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  • Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China

    • The Malesian Key Group (2010) Interactive Key to Seed Plants of Malesia and Indo-China (Version 2.0, 28 Jul 2010) The Nationaal Herbarium Nederland Leiden and The Royal Botanic Gardens Kew
  • Kew Backbone Distributions

    • The International Plant Names Index and World Checklist of Vascular Plants 2026. Published on the Internet at http://www.ipni.org and https://powo.science.kew.org/
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  • Kew Names and Taxonomic Backbone

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