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''Ficus pleurocarpa'', commonly known as the banana fig, karpe fig or gabi fig, is a fig that is endemic to the wet tropical rainforests of northeastern Queensland, Australia. It has characteristic ribbed orange and red cylindrical syconia.〔 It begins life as a hemiepiphyte, later becoming a tree up to 25 m (82 ft) tall. ''F. pleurocarpa'' is one of the few figs known to be pollinated by more than one species of fig wasp. ==Taxonomy== ''Ficus pleurocarpa'' was described by German-Australian botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1874 in ''Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae''.〔 Retrieved on 2008-07-13〕 Its specific epithet is derived from Ancient Greek ''pleuro'', ribbed, and ''carpus'', fruit, or flesh of the fruit, hence "ribbed fruit". This is derived from the 5–10 ribs that run along the length of the fruit.〔 With over 750 species, ''Ficus'' is one of the largest angiosperm genera. On the basis of morphology, English botanist E. J. H. Corner divided the genus into four subgenera〔 which were later expanded to six. In this classification, ''F. pleurocarpa'' was placed in subseries ''Hesperidiiformes'', series ''Malvanthereae'', section ''Malvanthera'' of the subgenus ''Urostigma''. In his reclassification of the Australian ''Malvanthera'', Dixon altered the delimitations of the series within the section, but left this species in series Hesperidiiformes.〔 In 2005, Cornelis Berg completed Corner's treatment of the Moraceae for the ''Flora Malesiana''; the completion of that work had been delayed since 1972 as a result of disagreements between Corner and C. J. J. G. van Steenis, editor of the ''Flora Malesiana''. Berg combined sections ''Stilpnophyllum'' and ''Malvanthera'' into an expanded section ''Stilpnophyllum''. This left ''F. pleurocarpa'' in subsection ''Malvanthera'', section ''Stilpnophyllum''.〔 Based on DNA sequences from the nuclear ribosomal internal and external transcribed spacers, Nina Rønsted and colleagues rejected previous subdivisions of the ''Malvanthera''. Instead, they divided section ''Malvanthera'' into three subsections—''Malvantherae'', ''Platypodeae'' and ''Hesperidiiformes''. In this system, ''F. pleurocarpa''is in the new subsection ''Malvantherae''.〔 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 pleurocarpa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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