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''Ficus platypoda'', commonly known as the desert fig or rock fig, is a fig that is endemic to central and northern Australia. It is a lithophytic plant that grows on rocky outcrops, reaching 10 m in height. ==Taxonomy== Dutch botanist Friedrich Anton Wilhelm Miquel described the desert fig in 1847 as ''Urostigma platypodum'', from material collected on both the east and west coast of Australia. The material collected by Allan Cunningham from York Sound in Western Australia became the type material. E.J.H. Corner synonymised ''F. platypoda'' with ''Ficus leucotricha'', which was described by Miquel in 1861, however as the former name is older, it has become the accepted name instead.〔 The various populations and subspecies of ''Ficus platypoda'' were examined genetically in 2001 and found to contain a number of distinct species. Hence ''Ficus brachypoda'', ''Ficus atricha'' and ''Ficus cerasicarpa'' were described as separate species. With over 750 species, ''Ficus'' is one of the largest angiosperm genera. Based on morphology, English botanist E. J. H. Corner divided the genus into four subgenera, which was later expanded to six. In this classification, ''Ficus platypoda'' was placed in subseries ''Malvanthereae'', series ''Malvanthereae'', section ''Malvanthera'' of the subgenus ''Urostigma''. In his reclassification of the Australian ''Malvanthera'', Australian botanist Dale J. Dixon altered the delimitations of the series within the section, but left this species in the series ''Malvanthereae''.〔 In a study published in 2008, Nina Rønsted and colleagues analysed the DNA sequences from the nuclear ribosomal internal and external transcribed spacers (ITS and ETS), and the glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase (G3pdh) region, in the first molecular analysis of the section ''Malvanthera''. They found ''F. platypoda'' to be most closely related to the ancestor of two other arid Northern Territory species (''F. subpuberula'' and ''F. lilliputiana'') and classified it in a new series ''Obliquae'' in the subsection ''Platypodeae''. The three species diverged from the ancestor of the transitional rainforest species ''F. obliqua'' and radiated into drier regions.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ficus platypoda」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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