Family: Moraceae
Ficus platypoda
Citation:
Cunn. ex Miq., Ann. Mus. Bot. Lugd. Bat. 3:287 (1867).
Synonymy: Urostigma platypodum Miq., London J. Bot. 6:561 (1847).
Common name: Native fig.
Description:
Shrub or small tree often 3-5 m high, often several-stemmed and often sprawling among rocks; leaves eventually glabrous, lanceolate to ovate, 6-10 cm long, 1.5-2.5 cm broad, rigid, dark and glossy, with many transverse parallel nerves and a broad thick petiole to c. 2 cm long.
Female flowers with 4 or 5 reddish-brown concave ciliolate perianth-segments about as along as the ovary (c. 1.5 ram); stigma 1, linear, longer than the style proper; receptacle almost sessile, axillary, globular, 6-12 mm diam., smooth, closed at the summit by a small thick umbonate cap.
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Image source: fig. 60 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Image source: fig. 60 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).
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Published illustration:
Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, figs 494 & 496.
Distribution:
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Grows particularly on rocky outcrops.
W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld.
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Conservation status:
native
Flowering time: Fruiting at all times of the year.
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SA Distribution Map based
on current data relating to
specimens held in the
State Herbarium of South Australia
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Biology:
No text
Taxonomic notes:
E. J. H. Corner (1965), Gdns Bull. Sing. 21:27 & 110, recognised five varieties but, following J. S. Womersley in Jessop (1981), Flora of central Australia 17, acceptance of these names is deferred subject to further study.
Author:
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