• Family : MORACEAE
  (Mulberry Or Fig Family)
• Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
• Family (as per The APG System III) : Moraceae
• Synonym(s) : Ficus ampla Kunth & C.D.Bouché; Ficus carolinensis Warb.; Ficus caulobotrya var. fraseri (Miq.) Miq.; Ficus cunninghamii (Miq.) Miq.; Ficus fraseri (Miq.) F.Muell.; Ficus glabella Blume; Ficus glabella var. nesophila (Miq.) K.Schum.; Ficus infectoria var. cunninghamii (Miq.) Domin; Ficus infectoria var. fraseri (Miq.) Domin; Ficus infectoria var. psychotriifolium (Miq.) Domin; Ficus infectoria var. typica Domin; Ficus infectoria var. wightiana (Miq.) King; Ficus infrafoliacea Buch.-Ham. ex Sm.; Ficus lambertiana (Miq.) Miq.; Ficus monticola Miq.; Ficus nesophila (Miq.) F.Muell.; Ficus nitentifolia S.Moore; Ficus psychotriifolia (Miq.) Miq.; Ficus racemosa Willd.; Ficus scandens Buch.-Ham.; Ficus terminalioides Griff.; Ficus terminalis B.Heyne ex Roth; Ficus timorensis (Miq.) Miq.; Ficus virens var. sublanceolata (Miq.) Corner; Ficus virens var. wightiana (Miq.) Chithra; Ficus wightiana (Miq.) Benth.; Urostigma aegeirophyllum Miq.; Urostigma apiculatum Miq.; Urostigma canaliculatum Miq.; Urostigma cunninghamii Miq.; Urostigma fraseri Miq.; Urostigma glabellum (Blume) Miq.; Urostigma lambertianum Miq.; Urostigma moritzianum Miq.; Urostigma nesophilum Miq.; Urostigma perseifolium Miq.; Urostigma psychotriifolium Miq.; Urostigma timorense Miq.; Urostigma wightianum Miq.
• Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ficus virens Aiton
• Common name : Spotted White Fig
• Vernacular name :
  • Basarimara (Kannada)
  • Ichimarm (Tamil)
  • Chakkila, Cherla, Pepar (Malayalam)
  • Pakodo, Kuajuri (Oria)
  • Pakar, Pakri (Hindi)
  • badijurvi, Jati, Juvi (Telugu)
• Habit : Tree
• Habitat : Tropical evergreen forests, Tropical semi-evergreen forests, Tropical dry deciduous forests
• Comments / notes : On the hills to 800m, in forests; Rocky ravines;
• Key identification features : Large deciduous trees with few or numerous tufts of aerial roots closely pressed to trunk and with thicket of suckers from base. Leaves variable, spirally arranged, ovate-elliptic to elliptic. Figs axillary, paired, ripening whitish, then pink to purple and black, basal bracts 3, persistent. Male flowers sessile, in 2-3 rings; tepals 2-3, acute, free. Galls sessile or shortly pedicellate, tepals 3-4, reddish, free. Female flowers sessile, tepals 3-4, free.
• Flower, Fruit : March-December
• Collector(s) Name : Arun Singh, K. Sankara Rao, Navendu Page & Raja K. Swamy
• Collection Date : 23/03/2016
• Collection Nos : HJCB-0608
• Collection Locality : BSI guest house, Yercaud, Salem district (TN)
• Distribution :
  • Andhra Pradesh : Anantapur district, Chittoor district, Kadapa district, East Godavari district, Guntur district, Krishna district, Kurnool district, Nellore district, Prakasam district, Srikakulam district, Vishakapatnam district, Vizianagaram district, West Godavari district
  • Karnataka : Chikkamagaluru district, Chitradurga district, Hassan district, Kodagu (Coorg) district, Kolar district, Mysuru district, Shivamogga district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district, Dakshina Kannada district
  • Kerala : Wayanad district, Malappuram district, Kollam district, Palakkad district, Idukki district
  • Maharashtra : Chandrapur district, Dhule district, Jalgaon district, Pune district, Raigad district, Satara district, Thane district
  • Odisha : Puri district, Ganjam district, Kendrapara district, Keonjhar district, Sundergarh district, Kalhandi district
  • Tamil Nadu : Coimbatore district, Dindigul district, Dharmapuri district, Kanchipuram (Changalpattu-CGP) district, Karur district, Krishnagiri district, Madurai district, Namakkal district, Pudukkottai district, Sivaganga district, Salem district, Tiruchirapalli district, Tiruvannamalai district, Villipuram district, Vellore district
  • Madhya Pradesh : Madhya Pradesh
  • Sikkim : Sikkim
  • Arunachal Pradesh : Arunachal Pradesh
  • Assam : Assam
  • Andaman and Nicobar Islands : South Andaman,Ritchie\'s Archipelago taluk (Havelock Island),Long Island
• Native : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri
• Exotic/Native : Native
• World Distribution : Andaman Islands, Australia, Bangladesh, Bismarck Archipelago, Bhutan, Borneo, Cambodia, Caroline Islands, China, Hainan, India, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Islands, Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nepal, New Caledonia, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Tibet, Vanuatu, Vietnam
• Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
• Literature :
  • J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
  • 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
  • Seetharam et al., 2000 – Flora of Gulbarga District
  • Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic 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
  • Gopalakrishna Bhat, 2014 - Flora of South Kanara
  • Sudhakar Reddy, C et al., 2009. Tree Wealth of Eastern Ghats of Andhra Pradesh, India
  • 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
  • H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
  • Parkinson, C.E. 1923. A Forest Flora of the Andaman Islands, Govt. of India, Shimla
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  • N.P. Singh, P. Lakshminarasimhan, S. Karthikeyan & P. V. Prasanna (2001). Flora of Maharashtra state, Dicotyledones. Vol. 2. pp.943. Botanical survey of India, Govt. India.
• 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 virens. Downloaded on 27 June 2024.

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