RECORD: Darwin, C. R. n.d. Abstract of Willdenow, Observations on the genus ficus, with the description of some new species. CUL-DAR205.5.50. Edited by John van Wyhe (Darwin Online, http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
REVISION HISTORY: Transcribed by Christine Chua and edited by John van Wyhe 1.2023. RN1
NOTE: See record in the Darwin Online manuscript catalogue, enter its Identifier here. Reproduced with permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library and William Huxley Darwin. The volume CUL-DAR205.5 contains notes on the principle of divergence, transitional organs and instincts.
C. L. Willdenow. 1806. Observations on the genus ficus, with the description of some new species. Annals of Botany 2: 312-25.
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Annals of Botany 1806 2/319 Willdenow on Ficus from Dorstema to Ficus there is a curious intermediate structure in Mithridatea from Madagascar, in which the receptacle remains closed until the flowers are developed, at which season it opens in four parts, displaying the appearance of a four-cleft flower — in Dorstema the flowers are embedded in a fleshy receptacle
Citation: John van Wyhe, ed. 2002-. The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. (http://darwin-online.org.uk/)
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