Ficus conglobata, King, 1888

Liao, Shuai, Miao, Bai-Ge, Gao, Jin-Xia, Gao, Jie, Yang, Da-Rong, Xiong, Yong-Mei, Sensarma, Sreyoshee, Peng, Yan-Qiong & Zhang, Zhen, 2025, The phylogenomic position and barcoding resources of Ficus conglobata with additional notes to its distribution ranges, Phytotaxa 687 (2), pp. 267-277 : 270-272

Phylogenomics of Ficus conglobata

Based on the nuclear Ficus 1316 reference dataset, we obtained a concatenate aligned supermatrix including sixteen samples with a length of 1931139 bp and a high-resolution phylogenomic tree ( Fig. 3 A ). In Fig. 3 A , five samples of Ficus conglobata comprise a well-supported monophyly (ultrafast bootstrap = 100 and posterior probability = 1), sister to a lineage including three samples of F. heterostyla . Ficus hispida , morphologically similar to F. conglobata , is unexpectedly sister to a rheophytic species, F. squamosa Roxburgh (1832: 531) , with a high support value (ultrafast bootstrap = 100 and posterior probability = 1).

The phylogenetic tree based on chloroplast genomes ( Fig. 3 B ) is obviously inconsistent with the tree from the nuclear dataset. Such as Ficus conglobata , which is sister to the clade consisting of all remaining species. However, among the three species, only the samples of F. heterostyla form a monophyletic group, but F. squamosa and F. hispida are polytomous.

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FIGURE 3. Phylogenetic position of Ficus conglobata shown by the maximum likelihood tree with ultrafast bootstrap values and posterior probabilities shown on the branches.A, tree based on the nuclear Ficus1316 dataset. B, tree based on chloroplast genome with one of two repeated regions omitted.