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Key to Ficus

Moraceae

Ficus

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(c) Corder, Brandon
(c) Weakley, Alan
1 Vine, climbing by adventitious roots, appressed to walls or trailing; leaves dimorphic (small and distichous on climbing branches, larger on non-climbing branches); [subgenus Synoecia]
1 Shrub to tree, erect; leaves monomorphic.
(c) Nesterova, Svetlana - CC-BY-NC, permission granted to NCBG
(c) Weakley, Alan - CC0
  2 Leaves palmately lobed, (7-) 15-30 cm long; shrub to small tree, rarely > 5 m tall; [widespread in our area]; [subgenus Ficus, section Ficus]
(c) natalie - CC0
(c) Martin, Chuck - CC-BY-SA
(c) Akshay - CC0
  2 Leaves unlobed, 3-15 cm long; tree, to 30 m tall; [of peninsular FL].
(c) Sagnik, Dutta Roy - CC-BY
    3 Leaf apex long caudate or acuminate, the tip ≥ ½ as long as the leaf blade
    3 Leaf blade obtuse to short acuminate (if acuminate the tip < ¼ as long as the leaf blade).
      4 Leaves with many (>20) lateral veins, these spaced 1-3 mm apart.
(c) Xharahi, Eridan - CC-BY
        5 Leaves 4-6 (-11) cm long, pliable when fresh
(c) Douch, James K. - CC-BY-SA
(c) scrofa, Sus - CC-BY
        5 Leaves 9-30 cm long, very thick and leathery; [subgenus Urostigma, section Conosycea]
(c) Bradley, Keith
      4 Leaves with < 15 lateral veins, these all or mostly spaced > 4 mm apart.
(c) Horn, Jay
          6 Peduncles 5-15 mm long; figs 8-18 mm in diameter, yellow or black when ripe; leaves subcordate to rounded at the base; [subgenus Urostigma, section Americanae]
(c) natalie - CC0
          6 Peduncles < 5 mm long; figs 5-15 mm in diameter, yellow, orange, red, purple or black when ripe; leaves rounded to cuneate at the base.
(c) natalie - CC0
             7 Leaves 4-6 (-11) cm long; figs 5-6 mm in diameter, purple or black when ripe; [subgenus Urostigma, section Conosycea]
             7 Leaves 6-12 (-15) cm long; figs 6-15 mm in diameter, yellow or orange when ripe; [subgenus Urostigma, section Americanae] .
(c) Bradley, Keith
(c) Bradley, Keith
               8 Basal pair of secondary veins borne at a narrower (more acute) angle to the midvein than the other secondary veins, extending 1/3rd or more the length of the blade
(c) Weakley, Alan
(c) Horn, Jay
(c) jraiford - CC-BY
               8 Basal pair of veins borne at a similar angle to the midvein as the other secondary veins, extending 1/8th or less the length of the blade