Taxon: Ficus lutea Vahl

Common names:

• Dahomey rubbertree   (Source: Mansf Ency [as F. vogelii]) – English
  
• Lagos rubbertree   (Source: Mansf Ency [as F. vogelii]) – English
  
• Vogel's fig   (Source: Ficus Exot Sp ) – English
  
• West African rubbertree   (Source: Ficus Exot Sp ) – English
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental; shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard; Zander ed13; Mansf Ency)
  
• Materials: latex/rubber   (source of Dahomey, Congo, or Abbo rubber fide Dict Econ Pl & Pl Book, as F. vogelii)
  

Distributional range:

• AFRICA
  Northeast Tropical Africa: Ethiopia
  East Tropical Africa: Kenya; Tanzania; Uganda
  West-Central Tropical Africa: Cameroon; Gabon; Zaire
  West Tropical Africa: Benin; Cote D'Ivoire; Gambia; Ghana; Guinea; Guinea-Bissau; Liberia; Nigeria; Senegal; Sierra Leone; Togo
  South Tropical Africa: Angola; Malawi; Mozambique; Zambia; Zimbabwe
  Southern Africa: Namibia [n.w.]; South Africa - KwaZulu-Natal
  Western Indian Ocean: Comoros; Madagascar; Seychelles

References:

• Aubréville, A. et al., eds. 1963–. Flore du Cameroun. (F Cameroun)
• Berg, C. C. 1981. The reinstatement of the West African Ficus lutea Vahl (Moraceae). Kew Bull. 36:597–598.
• Berg, C. C. 1986. The Ficus species (Moraceae) of Madagascar and the Comoro Islands. Bull. Mus. Natl. Hist. Nat., B, Adansonia 8:38–41.
• Berg, C. C. 1989. Flora of tropical East Africa. (F TE Afr) 69.
• Berg, C. C. 1990. Annotated check-list of the Ficus species of the African floristic region, with special reference and a key to the taxa of southern Africa. Kirkia 13:261.
• Condit, I. J. 1969. Ficus: the exotic species. (Ficus Exot Sp)
• Exell, A. W. et al., eds. 1960–. Flora zambesiaca. (F Zamb)
• Greuning, J. V. van. 1990. A synopsis of the genus Ficus (Moraceae) in southern Africa. S. African J. Bot. 56:609–610.
• Hanelt, P., ed. 2001. Mansfeld's encyclopedia of agricultural and horticultural crops. Volumes 1-6. (Mansf Ency) [= F. vogelii].
• Hedberg, I. & S. Edwards. 1989–. Flora of Ethiopia. (and Eritrea. 2000) (F Ethiop)
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening. (Dict Gard)
• Keay, R. W. J. 1989. Trees of Nigeria. (Trees Nigeria)
• Kunkel, G. 1984. Plants for human consumption. (L Edible Pl)
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) - on-line resource. (Pl Names)
• Uphof, J. C. T. 1968. Dictionary of economic plants, ed. 2. (Dict Econ Pl)

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Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ficus lutea. Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ficus baronii Baker
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ficus nekbudu Warb.
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ficus utilis Sim
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Ficus vogelii (Miq.) Miq.
  (previously associated with 2 accessions)
• (=) Urostigma vogelii Miq.
  

Check other databases for Ficus lutea Vahl:

• SIBIS: South African National Biodiversity Institute's (SANBI) Integrated Biodiversity System
• On-line Flora of Zimbabwe
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• 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.
  Note: Defaults to a search by genus or species epithet if species binomial not found.

Check other databases for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Images 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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