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Vernacular names of plants within the Genus Ficus

Hierarchical position of the Genus Ficus

Regnum  Plantae common name: The plant kingdom       Divisio  Magnoliophyta Cronquist syn. Angiospermophyta / Anthophyta pub. Takht. & Zimmerm. ex Reveal, Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: angiosperms, flowering plants       Subdivisio  Magnoliophytina Frohne & U. Jensen ex Reveal pub. Phytologia 79: 70. 29 Apr 1996. common name: Angiosperms       Classis  Rosopsida Batsch pub. Dispos. Gen. Pl. Jenens.: 28. 1788.       Subclassis  Dilleniidae Takht. ex Reveal & Tahkt. pub. 1993       SuperOrdo  Urticanae Takht. ex Reveal pub. Novon 2: 237. 1992.       Ordo  Urticales Dumort. pub. Anal. Fam. Pl.: 15. 1829.       Familia  Moraceae Link pub. Handbuch 2: 444. Jan-Aug 1831. common name: Mulberrys       Tribus  Ficeae Dumort. pub. Fl. Belg.: 24. 1827.       Subtribus  Ficinae Miq. in Mart. pub. Fl. Bras. 4: 81, 83. 1 Dec 1853.       Genus  Ficus L. pub. (1753) common name: fig

Named members of the Genus Ficus

1	Species  altissima Blume common name: council tree
2	Species  americana Aubl. common name: Jamaican cherry fig
3	Species  aurea Nutt. common name: Florida strangler fig
4	Species  benghalensis L. common name: Indian banyan, banyan tree
5	Species  benjamina L. common name: weeping fig
6	Species  brevifolia Nutt. syn. Ficus citrifolia
7	Species  carica L. common name: edible fig
8	Species  citrifolia P. Mill. common name: wild banyantree
9	Species  crassinervia Desf. ex Willd. syn. Ficus trigonata
10	Species  drupacea Thunb. common name: brown-woolly fig
11	Species  elastica Roxb. ex Hornem. common name: Indian rubberplant
12	Species  glomerata Roxb. syn. Ficus racemosa
13	Species  godeffroyi Warb. common name: fig
14	Species  laevigata Vahl syn. Ficus citrifolia
15	Species  lyrata Warb. common name: fiddleleaf fig
16	Species  microcarpa L. f. syn. Ficus thonningii
17	Species  nitida Thunb. syn. Ficus benjamina
18	Species  nota (Blanco) Merrill common name: tibig
19	Species  obtusifolia Kunth common name: amate
20	Species  palmata Forsk. common name: Punjab fig
21	Species  perforata L. syn. Ficus americana
22	Species  prolixa Forst. f. common name: fig
23	Species  pseudocarica Miq. syn. Ficus palmata
24	Species  pumila L. common name: climbing fig, creeping fig, creeping rubberplant
25	Species  racemosa L. common name: clustertree
26	Species  religiosa L. common name: peepul tree, peepal
27	Species  repens Rottl. syn. Ficus pumila
28	Species  retusa of authors syn. Ficus thonningii
29	Species  rubiginosa Desf. common name: Port Jackson fig
30	Species  sintenisii Warb. syn. Ficus americana
31	Species  stahlii Warb. common name: jaguey
32	Species  sycomorus L. common name: sycamore fig
33	Species  thonningii Blume common name: Chinese banyan
34	Species  tinctoria Forst. f. common name: fig
35	Species  trigonata L. common name: jaguey blanco  (Mexico)
36	Species  urbaniana Warb. syn. Ficus obtusifolia
37	Species  vogelii (Miq.) Miq. common name: West African rubbertree

Individual specimen entries are published in the sample database supplied with The Compleat Botanica for species or varieties of this supra-generic taxon.

Additional information is available in the commercial version of The Compleat Botanica software for species with this symbol.

For a description of the methodology followed in establishing this hierarchy see the note Nomenclature used in The Compleat Botanica.