Ficus crassipes

{{short description|Species of Australian plant known as the round-leaved banana fig}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=July 2019}}

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| image = Ficus crassipes.jpg

| status = LC

| status_system = IUCN3.1

| status_ref = {{cite iucn |author=IUCN SSC Global Tree Specialist Group. |author2=Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BGCI). |year=2021 |title=Ficus crassipes |volume=2021 |page=e.T192487946A192494974 |doi=10.2305/IUCN.UK.2021-1.RLTS.T192487946A192494974.en |access-date=4 October 2024}}

| genus = Ficus

| parent = Ficus subg. Urostigma

| species = crassipes

| authority = F.M.Bailey

}}

Ficus crassipes, commonly known as the round-leaved 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|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 |doi=10.7751/telopea20035611 |url=http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/72713/Tel10Dix125.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091004221118/http://www.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0020/72713/Tel10Dix125.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=4 October 2009 }}

Description

Ficus crassipes is a monoecious tree which grows up to {{convert|20|m|ft|abbr=on}} tall. Its leaves are {{convert|76|–|218|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|53|–|154|mm|in|abbr=on}} wide. Its syconia are yellowish to orange-brown to purple in colour, {{convert|43|–|68|mm|in|abbr=on}} long and {{convert|15|–|32|mm|in|abbr=on}} in diameter. It begins life as a hemiepiphyte.

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