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|accepted_name=Ficus elastica
|accepted_authority=Roxburgh ex Hornemann
|publications={{Treatment/Publication
|title=Suppl. Hort. Bot. Hafn.,
|place=7. 1819
|year=1819
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|common_names=India rubber plant
|special_status={{Treatment/ID/Special_status
|code=I
|label=Introduced
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|basionyms=
|synonyms={{Treatment/ID/Synonym
|name=Macrophthalma elastica
|authority=(Roxburgh ex Hornemann) Gasparrini
|rank=species
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|name=Urostigma elasticum
|authority=(Roxburgh ex Hornemann) Miquel
|rank=species
}}
|hierarchy=Moraceae;Ficus;Ficus elastica
|hierarchy_nav=<div class="higher-taxa"><div class="higher-taxon"><small>family</small>[[Moraceae]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>genus</small>[[Ficus]]</div><div class="higher-taxon"><small>species</small>[[Ficus elastica]]</div></div>
|volume=Volume 3
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--><span class="statement" id="st-d0_s0" data-properties="whole_organism duration;whole_organism some measurement;whole_organism habitat;whole_organism growth form"><b>Trees,</b> evergreen, to 12 m, epiphytic when young.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s1" data-properties="root location;root quantity"><b>Roots </b>aerial, abundant.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s2" data-properties="bark coloration;bark relief;bark relief"><b>Bark </b>gray, smooth or slightly roughened.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s3" data-properties="branchlet coloration;branchlet pubescence"><b>Branchlets </b>greenish brown, glabrous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s4" data-properties="stipule some measurement"><b>Leaves:</b> stipules 3-10 cm;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s5" data-properties="petiole some measurement">petiole 2.5-10 cm.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s6" data-properties="leaf-blade shape;leaf-blade length;leaf-blade width;leaf-blade texture;base shape;margin architecture or shape;apex shape;apex shape"><b>Leaf-</b>blade oblongelliptic to obovate, 9-30 × 5-12 cm, leathery, base rounded, margins entire, apex abruptly short-acuminate or apiculate;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s7" data-properties="surface pubescence">surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s8" data-properties="basal vein atypical quantity;basal vein quantity">basal veins 1 (-2) pairs;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s9" data-properties="lateral-vein quantity;lateral-vein arrangement">lateral-veins 10 or more, parallel;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s10" data-properties="secondary-vein prominence">secondary-veins inconspicuous.</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s11" data-properties=""><b>Syconia </b>paired, sessile, greenish yellow, oblong-ovoid, ca. 2 × ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s12" data-properties="syconium arrangement;syconium architecture;syconium coloration;syconium shape;syconium length;syconium width;syconium pubescence;syconium pubescence;scar duration;scar duration;syconium life cycle">subtending bracts caducous, leaving annual scar, entirely enclosing young syconia, glabrous;</span> <span class="statement" id="st-d0_s13" data-properties="ostiole shape;apical bract quantity">ostiole closed by 3 apical bracts, umbonate.</span><!--

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|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Lesser Antilles);Asia (native to India)
|introduced=true
|discussion=<p>Ficus elastica is commonly cultivated. It has not been collected recently in the area of the flora.</p>
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-->{{#Taxon:
name=Ficus elastica
|authority=Roxburgh ex Hornemann
|rank=species
|parent rank=genus
|synonyms=Macrophthalma elastica;Urostigma elasticum
|basionyms=
|family=Moraceae
|phenology=Flowering all year.
|habitat=Disturbed sites
|elevation=0-10 m
|distribution=Fla.;West Indies (Lesser Antilles);Asia (native to India)
|introduced=true
|reference=None
|publication title=Suppl. Hort. Bot. Hafn.,
|publication year=1819
|special status=Introduced
|source xml=https://bibilujan@bitbucket.org/aafc-mbb/fna-fine-grained-xml.git/src/84153f6d59a0a91d69695978a64cee7560374f8e/V3/V3_1152.xml
|genus=Ficus
|species=Ficus elastica
|apex shape=apiculate;short-acuminate
|apical bract quantity=3
|bark coloration=gray
|bark relief=roughened;smooth
|basal vein atypical quantity=1;2
|basal vein quantity=1
|base shape=rounded
|branchlet coloration=greenish brown
|branchlet pubescence=glabrous
|lateral-vein arrangement=parallel
|lateral-vein quantity=10
|leaf-blade length=9cm;30cm
|leaf-blade shape=oblongelliptic;obovate
|leaf-blade texture=leathery
|leaf-blade width=5cm;12cm
|margin architecture or shape=entire
|ostiole shape=umbonate
|petiole some measurement=2.5cm;10cm
|root location=aerial
|root quantity=abundant
|scar duration=annual;caducous
|secondary-vein prominence=inconspicuous
|stipule some measurement=3cm;10cm
|surface pubescence=glabrous
|syconium architecture=sessile
|syconium arrangement=paired
|syconium coloration=greenish yellow
|syconium length=2
|syconium life cycle=young
|syconium pubescence=glabrous;glabrous
|syconium shape=oblong-ovoid
|syconium width=1.5
|whole_organism duration=evergreen
|whole_organism growth form=tree
|whole_organism habitat=epiphytic
|whole_organism some measurement=0m;12m
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