''Pharmacosycea'' is one of six
subgenera
In biology, a subgenus ( subgenera) is a taxonomic rank directly below genus.
In the International Code of Zoological Nomenclature, a subgeneric name can be used independently or included in a species name, in parentheses, placed between the ge ...
currently recognised in the genus ''
Ficus
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family (biology), family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few spe ...
''. It was proposed by
E. J. H. Corner in 1967 to unite section ''Pharmacosycea'' with ''Oreosycea''.
Recent molecular
phylogenies has shown that the subgenus is
polyphyletic
A polyphyletic group is an assemblage that includes organisms with mixed evolutionary origin but does not include their most recent common ancestor. The term is often applied to groups that share similar features known as Homoplasy, homoplasies ...
. Section ''Pharmacosycea'' is a sister taxa to the rest of the genus ''Ficus'', while section ''Oreosycea'' is itself polyphyletic.
Section ''Oreosycea''
Section ''Oreosycea'' is
Palaeotropical in distribution.
[Berg CC, Corner EJH (2005) ''Moraceae - Ficus. Flora Malesiana'' Series I (Seed Plants) Volume 17/Part 2. National Herbarium of the Netherlands, Leiden.]
;Subsection Glandulosae includes (not complete):
* ''
Ficus asperula'' Bureau
* ''
Ficus auriculigera'' Bureau
* ''
Ficus austrocaledonica'' Bureau
* ''
Ficus barraui'' Guillaumin
* ''
Ficus bubulia'' C.C. Berg
* ''
Ficus carinata'' C.C. Berg
* ''
Ficus cataractorum'' Bureau
* ''
Ficus crescentioides'' Bureau
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Ficus dzumacensis'' Guillaumin
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Ficus edelfeltii'' King
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Ficus mutabilis'' Bureau
* ''
Ficus nervosa'' Heyne ex Roth
;Subsection Pedunculatae includes:
* ''
Ficus albipila'' (Miquel) King - Abbey tree
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Ficus bataanensis'' Merrill
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Ficus callosa'' Willdenow
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Ficus capillipes'' Gagnepain
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Ficus vasculosa'' Miquel
Section ''Pharmacosycea''
Section ''Pharmacosycea'' is
Neotropical
The Neotropical realm is one of the eight biogeographic realms constituting Earth's land surface. Physically, it includes the tropical terrestrial ecoregions of the Americas and the entire South American temperate zone.
Definition
In biogeogra ...
. Cornelis Berg recognised two subsections: Bergianae and Petenenses.
;Subsection Bergianae includes:
* ''
Ficus adhatodifolia'' Schott
* ''
Ficus carchiana'' C.C. Berg
* ''
Ficus crassiuscula'' Standl.
* ''
Ficus gigantosyce'' Dugand
* ''
Ficus insipida'' Willd. (subsp. ''insipida'' and subsp. ''scabra'' C.C. Berg)
* ''
Ficus lapathifolia'' (Liebm.) Miq.
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Ficus mutisii'' Dugand,
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Ficus oapana'' C.C. Berg
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Ficus obtusiuscula'' (Miq.) Miq.
* ''
Ficus piresiana
''Ficus'' ( or ) is a genus of about 850 species of woody trees, shrubs, vines, epiphytes and hemiepiphytes in the family Moraceae. Collectively known as fig trees or figs, they are native throughout the tropics with a few species extending i ...
'' Vázq.Avila & C.C. Berg
* ''
Ficus rieberiana'' C.C. Berg
* ''
Ficus yoponensis'' Desv.
;Subsection Petenenses includes:
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Ficus apollinaris'' Dugand (= F. petenensis Lundell)
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Ficus ecuadorensis'' C.C. Berg
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Ficus guajavoides'' Lundell,
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Ficus lacunata'' Kvitvik
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Ficus loxensis'' C.C. Berg
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Ficus macbridei'' Standl.,
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Ficus maxima'' Mill.
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Ficus maximoides'' C.C. Berg
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Ficus pulchella'' Schott
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Ficus tonduzii'' Standl.
References
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Pharmacosycea
Plant subgenera