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Ficus americana

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Details
Ethnobotanical Use
General Uses
Synonyms
Common Names
Subtypes (subspecies, varieties, subvarieties, forms)
Germination/Propagation
Distribution
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Internal ID UUID64401c501e7c4093518707
Scientific name Ficus americana
Authority Aubl.
First published in Hist. Pl. Guiane 2: 952 (1775)

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Scientific name Authority First published in
Urostigma oerstediana Miq. Bot. Voy. Herald : 196 (1854)
Urostigma chiriquianum Miq. Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. 13: 412 (1862)
Urostigma consanguineum Miq. Verslagen Meded. Afd. Natuurk. Kon. Akad. Wetensch. 13: 408 (1862)
Urostigma eugeniifolium Liebm. Mexic. Neldeagt. Pl. : 45 (1851)
Ficus arbutifolia Link Enum. Hort. Berol. Alt. 2: 450. 1822 [Jan-Jun 1822]
Ficus chiriquiana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 298 (1867)
Ficus consanguinea Kunth & C.D.Bouché Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1846: 17 (1847)
Ficus eugeniifolia Hemsl. Biol. Cent.-Amer., Bot. 3: 144 (1883)
Ficus fadyeni Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 219 (1867)
Ficus georgii Standl. & L.O.Williams Ceiba 1: 236 (1951)
Ficus jacquinaefolia A.Rich. Hist. Fis. Cuba, Bot. 11: 221 (1850)
Ficus liebmanniana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 298 (1867)
Ficus oerstediana Miq. Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugduno-Batavi 3: 299 (1867)
Ficus omphalophora Warb. Symb. Antill. 3: 466 (1903)
Ficus perforata f. roseiflora Chodat Bull. Herb. Boissier ser. 2, 3: 350. 1903
Ficus periplocifolia Kunth & C.D.Bouché Index Seminum (B, Berolinensis) 1846: 16 (1847)
Ficus sintenisii Warb. Symb. Antill. 3: 464 (1903)
Ficus wilsonii Warb. Symb. Antill. 3: 467 (1903)
Urostigma liebmannianum Miq. Bot. Voy. Herald : 195 (1854)
Ficus perforata L. Pl. Surin. : 17 (1775)

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Language Common/alternative name
English jamaican cherry fig
English mata-pau
English west indian laurel fig
Arabic تين أمريكي
Persian انجیر آمریکایی
Malayalam ഫൈക്കസ് അമേരിക്കാന
Portuguese mata-pau
Portuguese figueira-vermelha
Chinese 大苞榕

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Ficus americana subsp. andicola (Standl.) C.C.Berg Blumea 52: 299 (2007)
Ficus americana subsp. greiffiana (Dugand) C.C.Berg Blumea 52: 300 (2007)
Ficus americana subsp. guianensis (Desv.) C.C.Berg Blumea 52: 300 (2007)
Ficus americana subsp. subapiculata (Miq.) C.C.Berg Blumea 52: 302 (2007)

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Distribution (via POWO/KEW) Top

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  • Northern America
    • Mexico
      • Mexico Central
      • Mexico Gulf
      • Mexico Northeast
      • Mexico Southeast
    • Southeastern U.S.A.
      • Florida
  • Southern America
    • Brazil
      • Brazil North
      • Brazil Northeast
      • Brazil Southeast
      • Brazil West-central
    • Caribbean
      • Bahamas
      • Cuba
      • Dominican Republic
      • Haiti
      • Jamaica
      • Leeward Islands
      • Puerto Rico
      • Trinidad-Tobago
      • Windward Islands
    • Central America
      • Belize
      • Costa Rica
      • El Salvador
      • Guatemala
      • Honduras
      • Nicaragua
      • Panamá
    • Northern South America
      • French Guiana
      • Guyana
      • Suriname
      • Venezuela
    • Western South America
      • Bolivia
      • Colombia
      • Ecuador
      • Peru

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Database ID/link to page
World Flora Online wfo-0000687276
Florida Plant Atlas 1698
USDA Plants FIAM
Tropicos 21300596
INPN 629732
KEW urn:lsid:ipni.org:names:316336-2
The Plant List kew-2809441
Open Tree Of Life 430907
NCBI Taxonomy 309276
Nature Serve 2.143216
IUCN Red List 143276748
IPNI 316336-2
iNaturalist 162969
GBIF 5361926
Freebase /m/04ctrrc
EOL 487705
USDA GRIN 432027
Wikipedia Ficus_americana

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Scientific Literature Top

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Medicinal Plants from Latin America with Wound Healing Activity: Ethnomedicine, Phytochemistry, Preclinical and Clinical Studies—A Review Salazar-Gómez A, Alonso-Castro AJ Pharmaceuticals (Basel) 31-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9505834
doi:10.3390/ph15091095
PMID:36145316
Dietary preferences and feeding strategies of Colombian highland woolly monkeys Fonseca ML, Ramírez-Pinzón MA, McNeil KN, Guevara M, Gómez-Gutiérrez LM, Harter K, Mongui A, Stevenson PR Sci Rep 23-Aug-2022
PMCID:PMC9399098
doi:10.1038/s41598-022-17655-5
PMID:35999220
Genome‐wide sequence data show no evidence of hybridization and introgression among pollinator wasps associated with a community of Panamanian strangler figs Satler JD, Herre EA, Heath TA, Machado CA, Zúñiga AG, Nason JD Mol Ecol 07-Feb-2022
PMCID:PMC9545327
doi:10.1111/mec.16373
PMID:35090071
A Phytosociological Study on Andean Rainforests of Peru, and a Comparison with the Surrounding Countries Galán-de-Mera A, Campos-de-la-Cruz J, Linares-Perea E, Montoya-Quino J, Torres-Marquina I, Vicente-Orellana JA Plants (Basel) 26-Nov-2020
PMCID:PMC7761437
doi:10.3390/plants9121654
PMID:33256180
Taxonomic revision and molecular phylogenetics of the Idarnes incertus species-group (Hymenoptera, Agaonidae, Sycophaginae) Farache FH, Cruaud A, Genson G, Rasplus JY, Pereira RA PeerJ 05-Jan-2017
PMCID:PMC5289451
doi:10.7717/peerj.2842
PMID:28168097
Metabolomic data suggest regulation of black howler monkey (Alouatta pigra) diet composition at the molecular level Amato KR, Ulanov A, Ju KS, Garber PA Am J Primatol 09-Dec-2016
PMCID:PMC10373101
doi:10.1002/ajp.22616
PMID:27936282
Frugivory in Canopy Plants in a Western Amazonian Forest: Dispersal Systems, Phylogenetic Ensembles and Keystone Plants Stevenson PR, Link A, González-Caro S, Torres-Jiménez MF PLoS One 22-Oct-2015
PMCID:PMC4619584
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0140751
PMID:26492037
Tropical Secondary Forest Management Influences Frugivorous Bat Composition, Abundance and Fruit Consumption in Chiapas, Mexico Vleut I, Levy-Tacher SI, de Boer WF, Galindo-González J, Vazquez LB PLoS One 11-Oct-2013
PMCID:PMC3795674
doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0077584
PMID:24147029
Cryptic species of fig-pollinating wasps: Implications for the evolution of the fig–wasp mutualism, sex allocation, and precision of adaptation Molbo D, Machado CA, Sevenster JG, Keller L, Herre EA Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 24-Apr-2003
PMCID:PMC156293
doi:10.1073/pnas.0930903100
PMID:12714682

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