Ficus brachypoda

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus brachypoda (Miq.) Miq.

Synonyms: 13 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus eugenioides var. puberula Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus lachnocaula (Miq.) Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus obliqua var. puberula (Benth.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus platypoda var. lachnocaula Dunlop (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus platypoda var. lachnocaulon Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus platypoda var. lachnocaulos (Miq.) Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus platypoda var. minor Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus vitellina (Miq.) Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma brachypodum Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Urostigma lachnocaulon Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma platypodum f. glabrior Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma platypodum f. minor glabrior Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma vitellinum Miq. (taxonomic synonym)

Misapplied names: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus obliqua G.Forst. (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, SA, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, SA eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), Clarke_2015 (3), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), NTH_2014 (1), NTH_2022 (5), NTH_2023 (15), Nano_2011 (4), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (1), WAH_2022_2 (4), WAH_2023_2 (1), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 32 traits from 65 records in 17 datasets.

Traits by category (click to expand). For categorical traits, the values are listed. For numerical traits, the mean and range are shown.

fire response

resprouting_capacity (categorical): fire_killed (4); partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Nano_2011]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (3) [sources: Gross_2005; NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_type (categorical): syconium (1) [sources: Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (1) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 62.62 mm (19.5-126 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 31.38 mm (6.5-69 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 2.15 cm (0.3-4 cm) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); lanceolate (1); narrowly_elliptical (1); ovate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); cuneate (1); obtuse (1); rounded (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NTH_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (3); tree (4) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): lithophyte (1) [sources: NTH_2022]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): erect (1); spreading (1) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnyyyyyyynn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2); none (3) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.38 mg (0.38-0.38 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 16.67 m (10-25 m) [sources: Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
NTH_2023	11	15	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Kooyman_2011	9	13	R. Kooyman, M. Rossetto, W. Cornwell, and M. Westoby. “Phylogenetic tests of community assembly across regional to continental scales in tropical and subtropical rain forests”. Global Ecology and Biogeography 20 (2011), pp. 707-716. doi: 10.1111/j.1466-8238.2010.00641.x.
NTH_2022	5	5	D. of Land Resource Management and N. T. of Australia. Northern Territory Flora Online. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: http://eflora.nt.gov.au/.
Gross_2005	4	4	C. L. Gross. “A comparison of the sexual systems in the trees from the Australian tropics with other tropical biomes-more monoecy but why?”. American Journal of Botany 92.6 (2005), pp. 907-919. doi: 10.3732/ajb.92.6.907.
Nano_2011	3	4	C. E. M. Nano and P. J. Clarke. “How do drought and fire influence the patterns of resprouting in Australian deserts?”. Plant Ecology 212 (2011), pp. 2095-2110. doi: 10.1007/s11258-011-9988-x.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2022_2	4	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Clarke_2015	3	3	P. J. Clarke, M. J. Lawes, B. P. Murphy, J. Russell-Smith, C. E. Nano, R. Bradstock, N. J. Enright, J. B. Fontaine, C. R. Gosper, I. Radford, J. J. Midgley, and R. M. Gunton. “A synthesis of postfire recovery traits of woody plants in Australian ecosystems”. Science of The Total Environment 534 (2015), pp. 31-42. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.04.002.
Sjostrom_2006	3	3	A. Sjöström and C. L. Gross. “Life-history characters and phylogeny are correlated with extinction risk in the Australian angiosperms”. Journal of Biogeography 33.2 (2006), pp. 271-290. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2005.01393.x.
Crowley_2007	2	2	G. Crowley, M. Gardener, and M. Marrinan. Tropical savannas fire response database. 2007. url: [www.landmanager.org.au](www.landmanager.org.au).
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_1981	1	1	B. A. Barlow, H. T. Clifford, A. S. George, and A. K. A. McCusker. Flora of Australia. 1981. url: http://www.environment.gov.au/biodiversity/abrs/online-resources/flora/main/.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
NTH_2014	1	1	Northern Territory Herbarium. Flora of the Darwin Region Online. 2014. url: http://www.lrm.nt.gov.au/plants-and-animals/herbarium/darwin_flora_online.
WAH_1998	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
WAH_2023_2	1	1	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.