Ficus opposita

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus opposita Miq.

Synonyms: 9 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus apolepomena Summerh. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus branderhorstii Diels (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus conjugata Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus cumingii var. androbrota (Summerh.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus fitzalani Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus fitzalanii Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus opposita Miq. var. opposita (nomenclatural synonym)
Ficus xerophila Domin (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus yarrabensis Domin (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): Qld

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (3), ABRS_2023 (19), Brock_1993 (11), Butler_2004 (5), Chen_2017 (4), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (11), Crowley_2007 (2), Gross_2005 (8), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kew_2019_6 (2), Kooyman_2011 (22), Lord_1997 (4), Munroe_2019 (1), Schmidt_1993 (1), Schmidt_2003 (35), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Tng_2013 (5), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1), Wright_2008 (15). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 48 traits from 160 records in 23 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): resprouts (2) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007]
post_fire_recruitment (categorical): post_fire_recruitment_absent (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]

flower morphology

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

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 15 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): syconium (5) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (1); fleshy (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 4618.33 mm2 (2819-5565 mm2) [sources: Tng_2013; Wright_2008]
leaf_length (numerical): 96.5 mm (30-160 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 52 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
petiole_length (numerical): 1.25 cm (0.5-3 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 126.03 g/m2 (120.86-133.27 g/m2) [sources: Tng_2013; Wright_2008]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.15 g/g (0.08-0.28 g/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003]
leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); orbicular (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1); rounded (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1); opposite (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_arrangement (categorical): decussate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (2) [sources: Munroe_2019; Schmidt_2003]
plant_growth_form (categorical): shrub (1); tree (9) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; Lord_1997; Schmidt_2003; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; Brock_1993; Wenk_2023]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3); facultative_drought_deciduous (1); semi_deciduous (1) [sources: ABRS_1981; Brock_1993; Kooyman_2011; Schmidt_2003]
nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (2) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
root_structure (categorical): arbuscular_mycorrhizal (1); non_mycorrhizal (1) [sources: Schmidt_1993; Schmidt_2003]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1); zoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Lord_1997]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (2) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Lord_1997]
bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1); epicormic_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015; Crowley_2007]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 13.06 mg/g (9-16 mg/g) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Wright_2008]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.8 mg/g (0.77-0.83 mg/g) [sources: Wright_2008]
leaf_delta13C (numerical): -29.48 {delta}[ppth] (-33--25.02 {delta}[ppth]) [sources: Schmidt_2003; Tng_2013]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.87 mg (0.84-0.9 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1; Lord_1997]
seed_length (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
seed_width (numerical): 1 mm (1-1 mm) [sources: Butler_2004; Kooyman_2011]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.44 mg/mm3 (0.44-0.44 mg/mm3) [sources: Tng_2013]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 8.38 m (3-10 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Brock_1993; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Schmidt_2003	10	35	S. Schmidt and G. R. Stewart. “d15N values of tropical savanna and monsoon forest species reflect root specialisations and soil nitrogen status”. Oecologia 134 (2003), pp. 569-577. doi: 10.1007/s00442-002-1150-y.
Kooyman_2011	9	22	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.
ABRS_2023	11	19	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Wright_2008	8	15	I. J. Wright. “Unpublished data: Trait data for Northern Territory savanna species, Macquarie University”. 2008.
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.
Gross_2005	4	8	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.
Butler_2004	5	5	D. W. Butler, R. J. Green, D. Lamb, W. J. F. Mcdonald, and P. I. Forster. “Biogeography of seed-dispersal syndromes, life-forms and seed sizes among woody rain-forest plants in Australia's subtropics”. Journal of Biogeography 34.10 (2007), pp. 1736-1750. ISSN: 1365-2699. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2007.01734.x.
Tng_2013	5	5	D. Y. P. Tng, G. J. Jordan, and D. M. J. S. Bowman. “Plant traits demonstrate that temperate and tropical giant Eucalypt forests are ecologically convergent with rainforest not savanna”. PLoS ONE 8 (2013), p. e84378. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0084378.
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.
Lord_1997	4	4	J. Lord, J. Egan, T. Clifford, E. Jurado, M. Leishman, D. Williams, and M. Westoby. “Larger seeds in tropical floras: Consistent patterns independent of growth form and dispersal mode”. Journal of Biogeography 24 (1997), pp. 205-211. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2699.1997.00126.x.
ABRS_2022	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.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).
Kew_2019_6	1	2	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
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/.
Munroe_2019	1	1	S. E. M. Munroe, F. A. McInerney, J. Andrae, N. Welti, G. R. Guerin, E. Leitch, T. Hall, S. Szarvas, R. Atkins, S. Caddy-Retalic, and B. Sparrow. “The Photosynthetic Pathways of Plant Species Surveyed in Australia's National Terrestrial Monitoring Network”. Scientific Data 8 (2021), p. 97. doi: 10.1038/s41597-021-00877-z.
Schmidt_1993	1	1	S. Schmidt. “Unpublished data: Compilation of mycorrhizal status data, University of Queensland”. 1993.
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.