- Family : MORACEAE
(Mulberry Or Fig Family)
- Family (Hindi name) : ANJEER FAMILY (अंजीर फैमिली)
- Family (as per The APG System III) : Moraceae
- Synonym(s) : Ficus tomentosa Roxb. ex Willd
- Species Name (as per The IPNI) : Ficus mollis Vahl
- Common name : Soft Fig
- Vernacular name :
- Kamarup (Hindi)
- Kallatthi, Itti (Kannada)
- Kattarasu (Tamil)
- Plaksah (Sanskrit)
- Itchi (Malayalam)
- Jari (Oria)
- Jivi, Juvi, Kal Juvi (Telugu)
- Habit : Tree
- Habitat : Tropical dry deciduous forests
- Comments / notes : Occasional on foothills to about 600m or more, often by rocks.
- Flower, Fruit : June-January
- Collector(s) Name : Raja K. Swamy
- Collection Date : 13/12/2014
- Collection Nos : HJCB-E-225
- Collection Locality : Batrepalli, Nigidi forest, Anantapur district (AP)
- 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 : Bengaluru district, Vijayapura (Bijapur) district, Kolar district, Raichur district, Tumakuru district, Uttara Kannada district
- Kerala : Palakkad district, Idukki district
- Odisha : Ganjam district, Sambalpur district, Puri 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 : Hoshangabad district
- Uttar Pradesh : Uttar Pradesh
- Rajasthan : Karauli districtI,Sawai Madhopur districtR
- Native : India, Sri Lanka
- World Distribution : India, Sri Lanka
- Conservation Status : Not Evaluated (NE)
- Literature :
- J.L.Ellis, 1990- Flora of Nallamalais Vol. 2
- H.O. Saxena & M. Brahmam, 1995- Flora of Orissa Vol. 3
- R. S. Rao et al., 1986 - Flora of West Godavari District
- R. S. Rao and S. H. Sreeramulu, 1986 - Flora of Srikakulam District
- N.P.Singh, 1988.
- Cecil J. Saldanha, S. R. Ramesh (1984). Flora of Karnataka State vol. 1. Oxford and IBH Publishing Co, New Delhi
- Rao & Razi, 1981 – A Synoptic Flora of Mysore District
- 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.
- Read more :
- Citation : Sankara Rao, K., Deepak Kumar (2024). India Flora Online. http://indiafloraonline-ces.iisc.ac.in/plants.php?name=Ficus mollis. Downloaded on 10 October 2024.
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