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Image Title: Cauliflorous Figs of Ficus itoana
Image Credit: George D. Weiblen, Harvard University, Moyang Okira
AJB Editor: Karl Niklas, Cornell University
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Cauliflorous figs of Ficus itoana from Madang, Papua, New Guinea. This species is functionally dioecious due to the interaction of the pollinating fig wasp Ceratosolen armipes,with two types of figs on separate plants. Functionally dioecious figs in subgenus Ficus have been found to be nonmonophyletic.

Link to the AJB Abstract for the article:

Phylogenetic relationships of functionally dioecious Ficus (Moraceae) based on ribosomal DNA sequences and morphology

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