北碚榕(Ficus beipeiensis S.S Chang)雌雄异株,仅分布在重庆市北碚区北温泉附近的石灰岩壁上,目前调查仅发现5株野生植株.本文主要采用形态学、解剖学及生态学方法对北碚榕及其近缘种(大果榕、苹果榕)的形态特点进行比较研究.结果表明:1雌雄植株在形态结构上差异显著,雄株:叶呈卵圆形,纸质,平均直径约为3.90cm,圆盘形;雌株:叶呈长椭圆形,硬纸质,平均直径约为1.51cm,梨形;在叶的形态结构上北碚榕雄株类似于大果榕;雌株叶形与两种榕树不相同.雄株花序形态结构上,近似于两者而雌株花序与其相比差异较大.2雌花只存在于雌性隐头花序内,在雌花期时发育成熟,雌花花柱呈棒状,子房球形;雄花序内有瘿花和雄花,瘿花于间花期成熟,雄花于雄花期发育成熟;瘿花花柱呈喇叭状,子房倒卵形;雄花具雄蕊2枚,分布在苞片周围,并不散生在花序内;三种花的形态结构特点与传粉小蜂的行为密切相关.
Ficus beipeiensis S.S. Chang ,a dioecious species ,is distributed only on the rock walls of lime‐stone in the Jinyun Mountains ,Chongqing .Up to now ,only five wild plants have been discovered in the wild .In a preliminary study ,the morphological characteristics of F. beipeiensis and its relative species F. auriculata and F. oligodon were investigated and compared with the morphological ,anatomical and eco‐logical methods .Male and female plants of F. beipeiensis were found to be significantly different in mor‐phology .Male plant leaves :leaf blade ovate ,papery ;female plant leaves :leaf blade oblong‐elliptic ,thick‐ly papery ;female syconia :about 1.51 cm in average diam ,pear‐shaped;male syconia :about 3.90 cm in average diam ,globose .Male plants were similar to F. auriculata in morphological structure of leaf ,but female plants were different from F. auriculata and F. oligodon .Then ,male plants were similar to them in morphological structure of their syconium ,wh