| Dwarf Pachmarhi Fig |
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Botanical name: Ficus cupulata Family: Moraceae (Mulberry family)
Dwarf Pachmarhi Fig is a shrub or small tree, 2-6 m
tall, bark ash-coloured, wrinkled, woolly; aerial roots absent. Leaves
are alternate, ovate, 6.5-13 x 4-9 cm, blunt with a tip, heart-shaped
at base, entire, finely velvet-hairy; leaf-stalks 2.5-4 cm long;
stipules about 2 mm long. Receptacles are borne in leaf-axils clustered
towards apical portion of the branch, stalkless, nearly spherical, 8-10
mm across, dark cream-colored and silky hairy when young, light purple
on ripening; basal bracts cup-shaped, shallowly 2-3-lobed. Male and
gall flowers are in one receptacle, tepals 4. Female flowers in
separate receptacle, tepals 3-4. Fruits are warty. Dwarf Pachmarhi Fig
is endemic to Madhya Pradesh, originally found in Pachmarhi.
| Identification credit: Varun Sharma | Photographed in Nature's Nest Biodiversity Park, Agra & Satpura Tiger Reserve, Madhya Pradesh. |
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