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.

Image source: fig. 60 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Image source: fig. 60 in Jessop J.P. & Toelken H.R. (Ed.) 1986. Flora of South Australia (4th edn).

Published illustration: Erickson et al. (1973) Flowers and plants of Western Australia, figs 494 & 496.

Distribution:  Grows particularly on rocky outcrops.   W.Aust.; N.T.; Qld. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Fruiting at all times of the year.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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.

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