22:1322:13, 16 August 2021diffhist+2,971
Ficus insipida
→Distribution: more precise .... odd, Peru is missing from older distributions from the early 2000s, apparently because it was still classified as Ficus anthelminthica locally ...okay, I'm seeing lots of more distribution inconsistencies regarding Brazil and the West Indies = this all appears due to taxonomic changes not being taken in account in distributional databases, or just bad taxonomy
21:4421:44, 15 August 2021diffhist+371
Ficus
→Uses: benghalensis sp.; moved info from Ficus insipida; Ficus binnendijkii in cultivation is actually Ficus maclellandii (fide one of Berg's last papers), and only the cultivar 'Alii' has narrow leaves (in non-flowering branches)
20:2420:24, 15 August 2021diffhist+823
Ficus insipida
fill in citation template; bit about synonymy; move external link inline as ref & update url; big trees; common in Panama
23:1423:14, 13 August 2021diffhist+4
Ficus
moving more text: concentrating all uses/culture/human stuff in one section ... well, famous figs can have its own thang
23:1023:10, 13 August 2021diffhist+4
Ficus
reorganising text: 'phytochemicals' is part of description; all ecology subjects in separate 'ecology' section; 'uses' behind 'ecology'
21:5021:50, 13 August 2021diffhist−66
Reproductive coevolution in Ficus
→Mechanisms and outcomes: this is speculation based on a single thesis, and questionable: hybridisation in Ficus is highly uncommon, I know of no (clear) evolutionary evidence, nor any wild or cultivated examples. To my knowledge the common theory for hyper-speciation in Ficus in the mutualism combined with genetic drift and refugia theory, quicker evolution in wasps throws up reproductive barriers when populations become isolated
20:0220:02, 13 August 2021diffhist−256
Reproductive coevolution in Ficus
→Cospeciation: too confusing prose for the layperson (i.e. "popular belief"? why would that be popular belief?), some text not needed ... too confusing for the non-layperson as well ("thus"?, what does hybridisation have to do with mtDNA? That makes no bloody sense!): rewriting this
13:3813:38, 13 August 2021diffhist+1,372
Ficus insipida
conservation info ("rare", "common") is basically field guide info and merely reflects spatial distribution = moving it, replacing with more pertinent info; PoWO better synonymy ref. than old TROPICOS data, rming 'further reading' link; no longer stub
23:3523:35, 12 August 2021diffhist+43
Brycon
actually, the Fishbase citation disputes this: lots of names, but no "piraputanga" (the name looks Tupi, likely restricted to a few Brazilian spp.)