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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
}}
|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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|treatment_page=
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--><span class="statement" id="st-undefined" data-properties=""><b>Trees,</b> evergreen, to 12 m, epiphytic when young. <b>Roots</b> aerial, abundant. <b>Bark</b> gray, smooth or slightly roughened. <b>Branchlets</b> greenish brown, glabrous. <b>Leaves</b>: stipules 3-10 cm; petiole 2.5-10 cm. <b>Leaf</b> blade oblong-elliptic to obovate, 9-30 × 5-12 cm, leathery, base rounded, margins entire, apex abruptly short-acuminate or apiculate; surfaces abaxially and adaxially glabrous; basal veins 1(-2) pairs; lateral veins 10 or more, parallel; secondary veins inconspicuous. <b>Syconia</b> paired, sessile, greenish yellow, oblong-ovoid, ca. 2 × ca. 1.5 cm, glabrous; subtending bracts caducous, leaving annual scar, entirely enclosing young syconia, glabrous; 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><i>Ficus elastica</i> is commonly cultivated. It has not been collected recently in the area of the flora.</p>
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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
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|genus=Ficus
|species=Ficus elastica
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