Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Ficus citrifolia
Authorship: The author or authors credited with publishing the scientific name. It is written after the name, sometimes with the year, for example L. (Linnaeus) in Zea mays L. An author in parentheses first published the name in another genus or rank.
Mill.
Common names
Strangler Fig, Ficus, Fig Tree, Rubber Tree, Shortleaf Fig, wild banyantree
Names in other languages (9)Boislaglu, Figyé modi, Figyé blan, Arali siriz, Jagueillo, Jaguey, Jaguey macho, Jiguerillo, Lechecillo, Matapalo, wild banyan tree
Kingdom: One of the broadest ranks of biological classification. It groups organisms that share very basic features, for example plants (Plantae), animals (Animalia) or fungi (Fungi).
Plantae
Phylum: Rank below kingdom that groups organisms with a shared general body plan, for example chordates (Chordata), arthropods (Arthropoda) or vascular plants (Tracheophyta). In botany the same rank is also called division.
Tracheophyta
Class: Rank below phylum, for example mammals (Mammalia), birds (Aves), insects (Insecta) or monocot plants such as grasses and orchids (Liliopsida).
Magnoliopsida
Order: Rank below class that groups related families, for example grasses and their relatives (Poales) or bats (Chiroptera).
Rosales
Family: Rank below order that groups related genera. Family names usually end in -aceae in botany (for example Poaceae, the grass family) and in -idae in zoology (for example Felidae, the cat family).
Moraceae
Genus: Rank that groups closely related species. Its name is the first word of a species' scientific name and starts with a capital letter, for example Zea in Zea mays.
Ficus
Specific epithet: The second word of a species' scientific name. On its own it does not name the species: it always goes with the genus, for example mays in Zea mays.
citrifolia
Taxonomic rank: The level a name occupies in the hierarchy of biological classification, such as kingdom, family, genus, species or subspecies.
species
Reference species
Ficus citrifolia
Taxonomic status: Whether the taxonomic catalogue the record comes from currently accepts this name for the organism, or treats it as a synonym of another accepted name or as doubtful.
accepted name

Photos and conservation status

IUCN Red List category: The extinction-risk category that the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) assigns to a species on its Red List. EX Extinct: there is no reasonable doubt that the last individual has died. EW Extinct in the wild: it survives only in cultivation, in captivity or as a population far outside its past range. CR Critically endangered, EN Endangered and VU Vulnerable: the three threatened categories, from an extremely high to a high risk of extinction in the wild. NT Near threatened: close to qualifying as threatened. LC Least concern: evaluated and not threatened. DD Data deficient: there is not enough information to assess its risk. NE Not evaluated: not yet assessed against the criteria. It describes the risk of the species worldwide, not its situation in a project's area.
Least concern (LC)
Source: IUCN Red List via GBIF, queried on 2026-10-13 11:00.
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: Anders Hastings · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: Matteo Bellucci · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: Dayron Breto · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: Adam Pitcher · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: eml23 · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus citrifolia Mill.
Photo: Alex Doyle · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-13 11:00.

Interacciones documentadas

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Types shown: 9 of 9 is eaten by × is a host of × interacts with × has as a parasite × has as a vector × is dispersed by × is adjacent to × is a parasite of × is visited by ×

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is eaten by 122 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Great Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus lituratus Phyllostomidae is eaten by 11 not compared
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae is eaten by 6 not compared
Southern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa pusilla Phyllostomidae is eaten by 6 not compared
Seba's Short-tailed Bat Carollia perspicillata Phyllostomidae is eaten by 6 not compared
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is a host of 36 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it. In the source ontology symbiosis covers mutualism, commensalism and parasitism alike, so this block holds attackers and allies side by side.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Idarnes carme Agaonidae is a host of 21 no location
Phyllachora himalayana Phyllachoraceae is a host of 5 no location
Fig rust Cerotelium fici Phakopsoraceae is a host of 4 not compared
Idarnes carme Pteromalidae is a host of 4 no location
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interacts with 23 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Physothorax pallidus Torymidae interacts with 6 not compared
Physothorax bidentulus interacts with 2 no location
Heterandrium longipes Pteromalidae interacts with 2 no location
Pegoscapus franki Agaonidae interacts with 2 no location
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has as a parasite 18 organisms

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Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Physothorax pallidus Torymidae has as a parasite 3 no location
Pegoscapus assuetus has as a parasite 2 no location
Idarnes incertus has as a parasite 2 no location
Anidarnes bicolor Agaonidae has as a parasite 2 no location
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has as a vector 10 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Jamaica Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus jamaicensis Phyllostomidae has as a vector 4 not compared
Hairy Big-eyed Bat Chiroderma villosum Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
Southern Little Yellow-eared Bat Vampyressa pusilla Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
Thomas's Fruit-eating Bat Artibeus watsoni Phyllostomidae has as a vector 3 not compared
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is dispersed by 4 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
White-lined Tanager Tachyphonus rufus Thraupidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Violaceous Euphonia Euphonia violacea Fringillidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Turquoise Tanager Tangara mexicana Thraupidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Bay-headed Tanager Tangara gyrola Thraupidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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is adjacent to 3 organisms

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Cerotelium ficicola Phakopsoraceae is adjacent to 1 no location
Oyster Mushrooms Pleurotus Pleurotaceae is adjacent to 1 not compared Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Piper Mistletoe Phoradendron piperoides Santalaceae is adjacent to 1 no location
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is a parasite of 1 organism

This term declares that the organism benefits this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
BOLD:AAA0085 Choreutidae is a parasite of 2 not compared
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is visited by 1 organism

The authority declares no effect on this species for this term: neither that it harms it nor that it benefits it.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Ant Technomyrmex difficilis Formicidae is visited by 1 not compared
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Acompañantes documentados

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Documented uses and recommendations

Uses and recommendations that a source documents for this species beside a crop, each in its own context. They are the source's statements, not traits of the species and not Biolítica's recommendations, and none of them is a relation between two species.

Among the sources you can read, none documents a use or recommendation of this species beside a crop.