Ficus pleurocarpa

Explore the data for this taxon in the portal

Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus pleurocarpa F.Muell.

Synonyms: 1 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus cylindrica Warb. (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 (18), Chen_2017 (4), Cooper_2013 (11), Gross_2005 (4), Grubb_1996 (3), Ilic_2000 (1), Kanowski_2000 (45), Kew_2019_1 (1), Kooyman_2011 (13), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wells_2012 (54), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), Wright_2000 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 64 traits from 165 records in 16 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): 50 mm (35-65 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (13-27 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): syconium (4) [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; Wells_2012]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (4) [sources: Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_colour (categorical): orange (1); purple (1); red (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

leaf morphology

leaf_area (numerical): 13217.53 mm2 (6060-23207.57 mm2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wells_2012]
leaf_length (numerical): 205 mm (130-280 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 95 mm (50-110 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 3522.49 mg (2256.68-4669.5 mg) [sources: Wells_2012]
petiole_length (numerical): 10 cm (10-10 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 193.12 g/m2 (182.48-203.4 g/m2) [sources: Kanowski_2000; Wells_2012]
leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.33 g/g (0.32-0.34 g/g) [sources: Wells_2012]
leaf_shape (categorical): oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1); toothed (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

plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (6) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Grubb_1996; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): hemiepiphyte (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (2) [sources: ABRS_1981; Kooyman_2011]
pollination_syndrome (categorical): bee (1) [sources: Wells_2012]
dispersers (categorical): bats (1); birds (2); mammals (1) [sources: Cooper_2013; Wells_2012]

nutrient and stable isotope

leaf_N_per_dry_mass (numerical): 12.78 mg/g (12.36-13.2 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]
leaf_P_per_dry_mass (numerical): 0.96 mg/g (0.93-0.99 mg/g) [sources: Kanowski_2000]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 3.3 mg (3.3-3.3 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]

stem morphology

wood_density (numerical): 0.4 mg/mm3 (0.39-0.4 mg/mm3) [sources: Ilic_2000; Kooyman_2011; Wells_2012]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 25 m (15-30 m) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Wells_2012	22	54	J. A. Wells. “Phylogeny and inter-relations of ecological traits and seed dispersal in rainforest plants: Exploring aspects of functional diversity in primary and secondary rainforests in Australia's Wet Tropics.”. PhD. University of Queensland, 2012.
Kanowski_2000	23	45	J. Kanowski. “Ecological determinants of the distribution and abundance of the folivorous marsupials endemic to the rainforests of the Atherton uplands, north Queensland.”. PhD. James Cook University, Townsville, 1999.
ABRS_2023	14	18	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Kooyman_2011	10	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.
Cooper_2013	9	11	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
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.
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.
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.
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/.
Ilic_2000	1	1	J. Ilic, D. Boland, M. McDonald, D. G, and P. Blakemore. Woody density phase 1 - State of knowledge. National Carbon Accounting System. Technical Report 18. Tech. rep. Australian Greenhouse Office, Canberra, Australia, 2000.
Kew_2019_1	1	1	Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. 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.