Taxon: Ficus altissima Blume

Common names:

• counciltree   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• false banyan   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• lofty fig   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• gao shan rong   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• hohe Feige   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• glansfikus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Guangdong, Guangxi, Hainan, Yunnan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal
  North Indian Ocean: India - Andaman and Nicobar [Andaman Islands]
  Indo-China: Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Indonesia - Celebes, Java, Sumatra; Malaysia [Malaya]; Philippines

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Encke, F. et al. 1984. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 13. Auflage.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim. [mentions].
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ficus altissima.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ficus altissima.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ficus altissima.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ficus laccifera Roxb.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)

Check other web resources for Ficus altissima Blume:

• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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