Ficus hispida

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus hispida L.f.

Synonyms: 5 (APC 2026-07-30)

Covellia hispida (L.f.) Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)
Covellia oppositifolia (Willd.) Gasp. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus hispida L.f. var. hispida (nomenclatural synonym)
Ficus hispidioides S.Moore (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus oppositifolia Roxb. (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Brock_1993 (11), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kooyman_2011 (10), Metcalfe_2009 (19), NTH_2014 (1), NTH_2022 (4), NTH_2023 (13), Nano_2011 (2), RussellSmith_2012 (8), Sjostrom_2006 (3), WAH_1998 (2), WAH_2022_2 (8), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 134 records in 22 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): partial_resprouting (1); resprouts (4) [sources: Crowley_2007; Metcalfe_2009; Nano_2011; RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): dioecious (5) [sources: Gross_2005; NTH_2022; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 511.25 mm (15-1000 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 28.75 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 25 mm (10-40 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): syconium (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Metcalfe_2009; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): brown (1); cream (1); green (1); yellow (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 42000 mm2 (42000-42000 mm2) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
leaf_length (numerical): 197.12 mm (87-350 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 92.12 mm (37-200 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 7.45 cm (0.8-12 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (3); narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_oblong (1); oblong (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; NTH_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (2); oblique (2); rounded (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): toothed_crenate (1); toothed_serrate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2023]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2); opposite (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NTH_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_form (categorical): phanerophyte (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
life_history (categorical): perennial (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Metcalfe_2009; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (5) [sources: ABRS_2022; NTH_2022; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (1) [sources: ABRS_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (1); evergreen (3) [sources: Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; NTH_2014; WAH_1998]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
root_structure (categorical): mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5; Metcalfe_2009]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); cassowaries (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]
flowering_time (categorical): nnnnyyyynnnn (1) [sources: WAH_1998]
seedbank_location (categorical): soil_seedbank (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (2); short_persistent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009; RussellSmith_2012]
clonal_spread_mechanism (categorical): non_clonal (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (2) [sources: Crowley_2007; Nano_2011]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.56 mg (0.23-0.88 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Metcalfe_2009]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.52 mg/mm3 (0.52-0.52 mg/mm3) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 11.33 m (3-18 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; NTH_2023; WAH_2023_2]
plant_physical_defence_structures (categorical): absent (1) [sources: Metcalfe_2009]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	16	21	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Metcalfe_2009	19	19	E. Laliberte, J. A. Wells, F. DeClerck, D. J. Metcalfe, C. P. Catterall, C. Queiroz, I. Aubin, S. P. Bonser, Y. Ding, J. M. Fraterrigo, S. McNamara, J. W. Morgan, D. S. Merlos, P. A. Vesk, and M. M. Mayfield. “Land-use intensification reduces functional redundancy and response diversity in plant communities”. Ecology Letters 13.1 (2010), pp. 76-86. doi: 10.1111/j.1461-0248.2009.01403.x.
NTH_2023	10	13	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/.
Brock_1993	8	11	J. Brock and A. Dunlop. Native plants of northern Australia. Reed New Holland, 1993. ISBN: 9781877069246.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	8	10	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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	8	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	8	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2022	4	4	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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.
NTH_2022	4	4	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/.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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).
Kew_2019_1	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Nano_2011	2	2	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.
WAH_1998	2	2	Western Australian Herbarium. FloraBase: The Western Australian flora. 1998. url: http://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au.
Wenk_2022	2	2	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
Kew_2019_5	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed dispersal data from the 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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.
Wright_2000	1	1	I. J. Wright, H. T. Clifford, R. Kidson, M. L. Reed, B. L. Rice, and M. Westoby. “A survey of seed and seedling characters in 1744 Australian dicotyledon species: Cross-species trait correlations and correlated trait-shifts within evolutionary lineages”. Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 69 (2000), pp. 521-547. doi: 10.1111/j.1095-8312.2000.tb01222.x.