Bentham, G. (23 September 1873), Flora Australiensis 6: 169 [tax. nov.]

• Type: "N. Australia. N.W. Coast, Bynoe; Nicol Bay, Gregory's and Ridley's Expeditions."

Bailey, F.M. (1913), Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants: 486, Fig. 478 [secondary reference]

Chippendale, G.M. (17 April 1972), Check List of Northern Territory Plants. Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 96(4): 229 [secondary reference]

Womersley, J.S. in Jessop, J.P. (ed.) (1981), Moraceae. Flora of Central Australia: 17 [secondary reference]

Dunlop, C.R. (1987), Checklist of the Vascular Plants of the Northern Territory. Technical Report: Conservation Commission of the Northern Territory 26: 52 [secondary reference]

Chew, W.-L. in George, A.S. (ed.) (1989), Moraceae. Flora of Australia 3: 47, Fig 3, Map 52 [secondary reference]

taxonomic synonym: Urostigma platypodum f. glabrior Miq. legitimate

Wheeler, J.R. in Wheeler, J.R. (ed.) (1992), Moraceae. Flora of the Kimberley Region: 82 [secondary reference]

Dixon, D.J. (30 August 2001), A chequered history: the taxonomy of Ficus platypoda and F. leucotricha (Moraceae: Urostigma sect. Malvanthera) unravelled. Australian Systematic Botany 14(4): 549 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ficus brachypoda (Miq.) Miq. legitimate

Berg, C.C. & E.J.H.Corner (2005), Moraceae - Ficus. Flora Malesiana Series I 17(2): 694 [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ficus brachypoda (Miq.) Miq. legitimate

Council of Heads of Australasian Herbaria (2005), Australian Plant Census: - [taxonomic synonym]

taxonomic synonym of: Ficus brachypoda (Miq.) Miq. legitimate

Wilde, B.C. & Barrett, R.L. (5 July 2021), Hiding in plain sight, Ficus desertorum (Moraceae), a new species of rock fig for Central Australia. Telopea 24: 292-293 [secondary reference]

• Lectotype: "(here designated). ‘Novae Holl. or. occ.’ [Western Australia: N.W. coast, B. Bynoe s.n.] (lecto: K 001050896*; isolecto: U 0066831 [U.1424548]*, U 0066820 [U.1424547]*). Residual syntypes: Western Australia: Shark Bay, F.T. Gregory s.n. (syn: U 0142275*); Nicol Bay & De Grey River, 1863, J.B. Ridley s.n. (syn: K 001050895*)."

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