• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Moraceae
• Synonym(s) : Ficus mysorensis var. pubescens Roth in Roem. & Shult.; Ficus aurantiicarpa Elmer; Ficus chrysochlamys K.Schum. & Lauterb.; Ficus chrysocoma Blume; Ficus citrifolia Willd.; Ficus drupacea var. glabrata Corner; Ficus drupacea var. mysorensis (B.Heyne ex Roth) M.R.Almeida; Ficus drupacea var. subrepanda (Wall. ex King) D.Basu; Ficus ellipsoidea F.Muell. ex Benth.; Ficus gonia Buch.-Ham.; Ficus mysorensis Roth; Ficus payapa Blanco; Ficus pilosa Reinw. ex Blume; Ficus rupestris Buch.-Ham.; Ficus vidaliana Warb.; Urostigma bicorne Miq.; Urostigma chrysotrix Miq.; Urostigma dasycarpum Miq.; Urostigma drupaceum (Thunb.) Miq.; Urostigma mysorense (B.Heyne ex Roth) Miq.; Urostigma pilosum (Reinw. ex Blume) Miq.; Urostigma subcuspidatum Miq.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ficus drupacea Thunb.
• Common name : Mysore Fig
• Vernacular name :
  • Bili golimara (Kannada)
  • Kalaal, Kozhiaalamaram (Tamil)
  • Chela, Kallal (Malayalam)
  • Kondamarri chettu (Telugu)
  • Dhopobar (Assamese)
  • Dibuk-changne (Dafla)
  • Rotga-asing (Miri)
  • Dibuk-changne (Nishi)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical moist deciduous forests; Along streams and dry valleys; 1000 m
• Comments / notes : Often on hills to 800m, also in plains
• Key identification features : Leaf blade glabrous or with sparse short pubescence; figs glabrous.
• Flower, Fruit : December-June
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, Navendu Page, Raja K. Swamy, K. Sankara Rao
• Collection Date : 24/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0652
• Collection Locality : Kolli Hills Ghat road, Namakkal district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Karnataka : Belagavi district, Ballari district, Chikkamagaluru district, Dakshina Kannada district, Davanagare district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Udupi district, Uttara Kannada district
  • Kerala : All districts of Kerala
  • Odisha : Ganjam district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dharmapuri district, Dindigul district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, The Nilgiri district, Salem district, Theni district, Tiruvannamalai district
  • Uttarakhand : Uttarakhand
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • West Bengal : Darjeeling district
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Changlang, Lohit, Siang
  • Meghalaya : Meghalaya
  • Assam : Assam
  • Nagaland : Nagaland
  • Delhi : Delhi
  • Mizoram : Mizoram
  • Manipur : Manipur
  • Tripura : Tripura
• Native : Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Bhutan, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Queensland, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Australia, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
  • Saldanha & Nicolson, 1976 – Flora of Hassan District
  • Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – Flora of Mysore District
  • Keshava Murthy & Yoganarasimhan, 1990 – Flora of Coorg District
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2003 – Flora of Udupi District
  • Bhaskar & Kushalappa, 2013- Flora of Tumkur District
  • Manjunath et al., 2003 – Flora of Davanagere District
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • Matthew, K.M., The Flora of Tamil Nadu Carnatic, Vol.3 (2). Diocesan Press, Madras. 1983
  • Sasidharan, N. 2011. Flowering plants of Kerala. DVD, V 2, KFRI.
  • Uniyal B.P., Sharma J.R., Choudhery U., Singh D.K. (2007). Flowering Plants of Uttarakhand: A Checklist. Bishen Singh Mahendra Pal Singh: 220
  • GRIERSON A.J.C. & LONG D.G. (1983). FLORA OF BHUTAN INCLUDING A RECORD OF PLANTS FROM SIKKIM Vol. 1: Part 1. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDEN, EDINBURGH: 96
  • G.S Giri., A.Pramanik., H.J. Chowdhery., G.D Pal and S.K. Das (2008). Materials for Arunachal Pradesh, Vol (2), Pg: 393
• Read more :
  • Plants of the World Online
  • World Flora Online
  • Global Plants on JSTOR
• Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ficus drupacea var. pubescens. Downloaded on 7 September 2024.

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