Ficus microcarpa

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus microcarpa L.f.

Synonyms: 17 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus cairnsii Warb. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus dahlii K.Schum. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus dictyophleba F.Muell. ex Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus dyctiophleba Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus hillii F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus microcarpa L.f. f. microcarpa (nomenclatural synonym)
Ficus microcarpa L.f. var. microcarpa (nomenclatural synonym)
Ficus microcarpa var. hillii (F.M.Bailey) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus microcarpa var. latifolia (Miq.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus microcarpa var. naumanni (Engl.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus naumanni Engl. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus thynneana F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus thynneana F.M.Bailey var. thynneana (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus thynneana var. minor Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus thynneana var. typica Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma accedens var. latifolium Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Urostigma microcarpum (L.f.) Miq. (nomenclatural synonym)

Misapplied names: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus nitida Thunb. (misapplied)
Ficus retusa L. (misapplied)
Ficus retusa var. nitida (Thunb.) King (misapplied)

Distribution (APC): ChI, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2023 (21), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_3 (3), Kew_2019_5 (1), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kooyman_2011 (9), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 36 traits from 68 records in 15 datasets.

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

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 9.25 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 10 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_height (numerical): 9.5 mm (7-12 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
fruit_type (categorical): syconium (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (3) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): black (1); purple (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 72.5 mm (25-120 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_width (numerical): 52.5 mm (15-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.1 cm (0.2-2 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_shape (categorical): narrowly_elliptical (1); narrowly_obovate (1); oblong (1); obovate (1); widely_elliptical (1); widely_obovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): attenuate (1); cuneate (1); oblique (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (1) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: Kew_2019_3]
plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_woody (1); tree (4) [sources: Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): hemiepiphyte (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): zoochory (1) [sources: Kew_2019_5]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1) [sources: Cooper_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.37 mg (0.32-0.52 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; 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): 21.67 m (20-25 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
ABRS_2023	15	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.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
Kooyman_2011	7	9	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.
Chen_2017	4	4	Chen, S.-C., Cornwell, W., Z. H.-X., Moles, and A. T. “Plants show more flesh in the tropics: Variation in fruit type along latitudinal and climatic gradients.”. Ecography 40 (2017), pp. 531-538. doi: abs/10.1111/ecog.02010.
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.
Grubb_1996	3	3	P. J. Grubb and D. J. Metcalfe. “Adaptation and inertia in the Australian tropical lowland rain-forest flora: Contradictory trends in intergeneric and intrageneric comparisons of seed size in relation to light demand”. Functional Ecology 10 (1996), pp. 512-520. doi: 10.2307/2389944.
Kew_2019_1	1	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Kew_2019_3	3	3	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Salt and water tolerance data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.
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_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/.
Kew_2019_6	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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.