Historically a range of
closely related fig species have at various times been included under
the name Ficus thonningii. Recently many of these entities were
recognised once again as good species and raised out of synonymy with
Ficus thonningii (Burrows
& Burrows 2003). True Ficus thonningii is probably
restricted to West Africa. Two widespread species in southern Africa
(F. burkei and F. petersii) are commonly referred to as F.
thonningii in the literature. The following species previously
synonymised with F. thonningii are currently
regarded as good species:
Ficus
thonningii is a
West African species described from Ghana, but given the uncertainty
about delimitation of the species it is not possible to provide
further distributional information.
