Ficus crassipes

Taxobox
name = Ficus crassipes


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image_caption = "Ficus crassipes"
regnum = Plantae
divisio = Magnoliophyta
classis = Magnoliopsida
ordo = Urticales
familia = Moraceae
genus = "Ficus"
species = "F. crassipes"
binomial = "Ficus crassipes"
binomial_authority = F.M.Bailey

"Ficus crassipes", commonly known as the round leaf banana fig is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has large brownish cylindrical syconia.cite journal | quotes = no | last = Dixon | first = Dale J. | year = 2003 | title = A taxonomic revision of the Australian "Ficus" species in the section "Malvanthera" ("Ficus" subg. "Urostigma": Moraceae) | journal = Telopea | volume = 10 | issue = 1 | pages = 125–53 | url = http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/72713/Tel10Dix125.pdf ]

Description

"Ficus crassipes" is a monoecious tree which grows up to 20 m (66 ft) tall. Its leaves are 76–218 mm long (3–9 in) long and 53–154 mm (2–6 in) wide. Its syconia are yellowish to orange-brown to purple in colour, 43–68 mm (1.7–2.7 in) long and 15–32 mm (0.6–1.3 in) in diameter. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte.

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*APNI | name = Ficus coronata | id = 36712