Distribution Map

Ficus thonningii

As at April 2024, 20 herbarium specimens, 4 photo records, 127 visual observations
Global Distribution: Also occurs outside southern Africa
Found within protected areas: 
Medicinal
Other uses

Description (Compton's Flora of Swaziland*):
Ficus petersii - Usually a “strangler”. Seedling usually epiphytic, main roots clasping and fusing around host tree, and eventually becoming a large independent tree. Bark grey. Lateral branches and leaves pendulous. Leaf-stalks very slender, up to 5 cm long, blade oval, blunt at tip, narrowing gradually to stalk, widest above middle, up to 9 cm long x 3 cm wide, hairless. Figs numerous on current season’s branches among or below leaves, spherical, downy, very short-stalked, c 1 cm diam.

* Where species names have changed, these have been matched according to herbarium specimens quoted in this publication.

Notes:
Global distribution information: southern Africa includes southern Mozambique and southern Zimbabwe.
Restricted distribution has been based on an estimated extent of occurence of less than 100 000 km2 and/or an estimated area of occupancy of 100 km2, based on geo-referenced GBIF and iNaturalist data.