Identidad taxonómica

Scientific name
Ficus sur Forssk.
Canonical name: The scientific name without its authorship or date, for example Zea mays instead of Zea mays L.
Ficus sur
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.
Forssk.
Common names
Broom Cluster Fig, Broom-Cluster Fig, Cape Wild Fig, Cape fig, Fire Sticks, Kooman, Kooman Fig, bush fig
Names in other languages (69)Besen-Feige, Bosvye, Figueira do Cabo, Gobab, Kaapse Trosvyeboom, Kaapse wilde vijg, Kaapse wilde vijgenboom, Kap-Feige, Mkuyu, Mokoyo, Muonde, Mũkũyũ, Nkuwa, Opoto, Petit sycomore, Uwar yara, Widevy, Widevyeboom, amakhiwane, besem-trosvy, besembosvy, besemtrosvy, bosvyboom, bosvyeboom, emaKhiwa, figovník huňatoplodý, grootvy, iNtombi kayibhinci, ingobozweni, intombi-kayibhinci, kakeke, kapfikus, koemaan, koeman, koemanoboom, komaan, komaansvy, koman, kuyu, mkwane, moghoyo, mogo, mogo-tshetlo, mogoyo, mphai, muchowana, muchowana/i, muhuyu, muhuyu-lukuse, muhuyu-ngala, mukiwa, mukowana, mukowane, muku, mukunyu, mukuyu, mukuyu-pasi, muvonde, muwande, muwonde, namonde, punttiviikuna, umKhiwane, umkiwane, umkwane, wildevyboom, Фикус сюр, פיקוס הכף, سوـر
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.
sur
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 sur
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 2026-10-09 06:09.
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Sunčana Bradley · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Henry de Lange · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Dave Richardson · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Di Turner · CC0 1.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Sunčana Bradley · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation
Photo of Ficus sur Forssk.
Photo: Sunčana Bradley · CC BY 4.0 · View original image · Original observation

Research-grade iNaturalist observations via GBIF, CC0 or CC BY licences only, queried on 2026-10-09 06:09.

Interacciones documentadas

GloBI says it is documented somewhere in the world. Biolitica answers whether it could happen here.

A documented interaction means it was recorded somewhere in the world. It does not mean it occurs here.

Types shown: 9 of 9 is eaten by × interacts with (this species is the record's destination) × is a host of × is dispersed by × has as a parasite × has as a vector × interacts with (this species is the record's origin) × is pollinated by × has its flowers visited by ×

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is eaten by 167 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Blue Monkey Cercopithecus mitis Cercopithecidae is eaten by 5 not compared
African Green-pigeon Treron calvus Columbidae is eaten by 5 not compared
Crowned Hornbill Tockus alboterminatus is eaten by 4 not compared
Common Bulbul Pycnonotus barbatus Pycnonotidae is eaten by 4 not compared
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interacts with 38 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
African Straw-coloured Fruit-bat Eidolon helvum Pteropodidae interacts with 3 no location
Apocrypta guineensis Agaonidae interacts with 2 no location
Wahlberg's Epauletted Fruit Bat Epomophorus wahlbergi Pteropodidae interacts with 2 no location
Pauropsylla trichaeta Triozidae interacts with 1 not compared
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is a host of 32 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
Ceratosolen capensis Agaonidae is a host of 24 not compared
Ceratosolen flabellatus Agaonidae is a host of 10 no location
Pauropsylla trichaeta Triozidae is a host of 9 not compared
Sycophaga cyclostigma Agaonidae is a host of 9 no location
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is dispersed by 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
Grey-throated Barbet Gymnobucco bonapartei Lybiidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Black-and-white-casqued Hornbill Bycanistes subcylindricus Bucerotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Eastern Yellow-spotted Barbet Buccanodon duchaillui Lybiidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
Joyful Greenbul Chlorocichla laetissima Pycnonotidae is dispersed by 1 not compared
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has as a parasite 19 organisms

This term does declare that the organism harms this species.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Ceratosolen capensis Agaonidae has as a parasite 5 not compared
Ceratosolen flabellatus Agaonidae has as a parasite 4 no location
Ceratosolen silvestrianus Agaonidae has as a parasite 4 no location
Sycoscapter niger Agaonidae has as a parasite 2 no location
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has as a vector 16 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
Pan troglodytes Hominidae has as a vector 4 no location
Trumpeter Hornbill Bycanistes bucinator Bucerotidae has as a vector 1 no location
Groundnut Hopper Nototettigometra patruelis Tettigometridae has as a vector 1 no location
Knysna Turaco Tauraco corythaix Musophagidae has as a vector 1 no location
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interacts with 2 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
map butterflies Cyrestis interacts with 1 no location Not a modelling unit: the source publishes it at genus level.
Accented Hawk-moth Nephele accentifera interacts with 1 no location
Showing 2 of 2, by number of studies

Pollination

is pollinated by 1 organism

This term declares that the organism benefits this species. «Visits the flowers of» is a different term and a different block: a visitor is not a pollinator, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Ceratosolen capensis Agaonidae is pollinated by 1 no location
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Flower visit

has its flowers 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. Visiting a flower is not pollinating it. «Pollinates» is a different term and a different block, and merging the two is the measured defect that turned ~88 shared «pollinators» into birds and primates.

Organism Reads as Studies Where it was documented Actions
Ceratosolen capensis Agaonidae has its flowers visited by Refuted 1 no location
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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.