Ficus subg. Pharmacosycea

Pharmacosycea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
(unranked):	Angiosperms
(unranked):	Eudicots
(unranked):	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Moraceae
Genus:	Ficus
Subgenus:	Pharmacosycea Corner
Section
Oreosycea Pharmacosycea

Pharmacosycea is one of six subgenera currently recognised in the genus Ficus. 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. Section Pharmacosycea is a sister taxa to the rest of the genus Ficus, while section Oreosycea is itself polyphyletic.^[1]

Section Pharmacosycea

Section Pharmacosycea is Neotropical. Cornelis Berg recognised two subsections: Bergianae and Petenenses.^[2]

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.
• Ficus mutisii Dugand,
• Ficus oapana C.C. Berg
• Ficus obtusiuscula (Miq.) Miq.
• Ficus piresiana Vázq.Avila & C.C. Berg
• Ficus rieberiana C.C. Berg
• Ficus yoponensis Desv.

Subsection Petenenses includes:

• Ficus apollinaris Dugand (= F. petenensis Lundell)
• Ficus ecuadorensis C.C. Berg
• Ficus guajavoides Lundell,
• Ficus lacunata Kvitvik
• Ficus loxensis C.C. Berg
• Ficus macbridei Standl.,
• Ficus maxima Mill.
• Ficus maximoides C.C. Berg
• Ficus pulchella Schott
• Ficus tonduzii Standl.

Section Oreosycea

Section Oreosycea is Palaeotropical.

References

1. Rønsted, N.; G.D. Weiblen; W.L. Clement; N.J.C. Zerega; V. Savolainen (2008). "Reconstructing the phylogeny of figs (Ficus, Moraceae) to reveal the history of the fig pollination mutualism" (PDF). Symbiosis 45 (1–3): 45–56.
2. Berg, C. C. (2006). "The Subdivision of Ficus Subgenus Pharmacosycea Section Pharmacosycea (Moraceae)". Blumea 51 (1): 147–51. doi:10.3767/000651906x622409.