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Ficus rubiginosa

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus rubiginosa Desf. ex Vent.

Synonyms: 17 (APC 2026-07-30)
  • Ficus australis Willd. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ficus baileyana Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus leichhardtii (Miq.) Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus macrophylla var. pubescens F.M.Bailey (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus obliqua var. petiolaris (Benth.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus platypoda var. angustata (Miq.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus platypoda var. leichhardtii (Miq.) R.J.F.Hend. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus platypoda var. mollis Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus platypoda var. petiolaris Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus platypoda var. subacuminata Benth. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus rubiginosa Desf. ex Vent. var. rubiginosa (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Ficus rubiginosa var. lucida Maiden (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus rubiginosa var. variegata Guilf. (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus shirleyana Domin (taxonomic synonym)
  • Ficus sp. A (aff. rubiginosa) (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Mastosuke rubiginosa (Vent.) Raf. (nomenclatural synonym)
  • Urostigma rubiginosum (Vent.) Gasp. (nomenclatural synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA (naturalised), Qld, NSW

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

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_1981 (1), ABRS_2022 (4), ABRS_2023 (21), Chen_2017 (8), Clarke_2015 (3), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (4), Hughes_1992 (4), Kew_2019_1 (2), Kew_2019_6 (1), Kubiak_2009 (3), McCarthy_2017 (10), NHNSW_2014_2 (4), NHNSW_2022 (4), NHNSW_2023 (18), NSWFRD_2014 (9), RadfordSmith_2024 (36), Sjostrom_2006 (3), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1), White_2020 (20). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 62 traits from 170 records in 21 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
flower morphology
  • flower_colour (categorical): green (1); yellow_orange (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
  • sex_type (categorical): monoecious (2) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit morphology
  • fruit_length (numerical): 15.83 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_width (numerical): 15.83 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_height (numerical): 17.5 mm (10-20 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • fruit_type (categorical): syconium (7) [sources: ABRS_2023; Chen_2017; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; NHNSW_2023; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • 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]
  • fruit_colour (categorical): red (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
  • leaf_area (numerical): 3274.09 mm2 (1528.25-5150.45 mm2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_length (numerical): 103.33 mm (70-150 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_width (numerical): 53.33 mm (35-75 mm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_dry_mass (numerical): 427.42 mg (302.77-726.38 mg) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • petiole_length (numerical): 3.67 cm (1-7 cm) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_mass_per_area (numerical): 127.49 g/m2 (95.82-197.58 g/m2) [sources: McCarthy_2017; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_dry_matter_content (numerical): 0.34 g/g (0.3-0.41 g/g) [sources: RadfordSmith_2024]
  • leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (2); obovate (2); ovate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_base_shape (categorical): cuneate (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]
  • leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
  • leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2014_2]
  • plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (2) [sources: ABRS_2023; NHNSW_2023]
life history
  • photosynthetic_pathway (categorical): c3 (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (7) [sources: ABRS_2022; Cooper_2013; Hughes_1992; NHNSW_2022; NSWFRD_2014; Wenk_2022; White_2020]
  • life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2023]
  • woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022; Wenk_2022]
  • stem_growth_habit (categorical): spreading (2) [sources: ABRS_2022; NHNSW_2022]
  • leaf_phenology (categorical): evergreen (3) [sources: ABRS_1981; NHNSW_2014_2; RadfordSmith_2024]
  • nitrogen_fixing (categorical): non_nitrogen_fixer (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • parasitic (categorical): not_parasitic (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • pollination_syndrome (categorical): insect (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (3); zoochory (1) [sources: Hughes_1992; NSWFRD_2014; RadfordSmith_2024; White_2020]
  • dispersers (categorical): birds (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; NSWFRD_2014; White_2020]
  • flowering_time (categorical): yyyyyynnnnny (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • serotiny (categorical): not_serotinous (1) [sources: Hughes_1992]
  • seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): transient (1) [sources: White_2020]
  • vegetative_reproduction_ability (categorical): not_vegetative (2) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2; White_2020]
  • bud_bank_location (categorical): basal_stem_buds (1) [sources: Clarke_2015]
seed morphology
  • seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.61 mg (0.35-0.86 mg) [sources: Kew_2019_1]
whole plant morphology

Sources

dataset_idn_traitsn_recordsreference
RadfordSmith_20241336J. Radford-Smith, H. R. Lai, E. C. Weeren, and J. M. Dwyer. “A Functional Basis for the Assembly of Australian Subtropical Rainforest Tree Communities”. Ecology Letters 27.11 (2024). ISSN: 1461-0248. doi: 10.1111/ele.70014.
ABRS_20231321Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
White_20202020M. White, S. Sinclair, and D. Frood. Victorian Vital Attributes Database. database. Department of Environment, Land, Water and Planning, Victoria, 2020.
NHNSW_20231218N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2023. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Cooper_20131012W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
McCarthy_2017210J. K. McCarthy, J. M. Dwyer, and K. Mokany. “A regional-scale assessment of using metabolic scaling theory to predict ecosystem properties”. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286.1915 (2019), p. 20192221. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2019.2221.
NSWFRD_201499B. Kenny, C. Orscheg, E. Tasker, M. A. Gill, and R. Bradstock. NSW Flora Fire Response Database, v2.1. database. NSW Department of Planning Industry and Environment, 2014.
Chen_201748Chen, 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.
ABRS_202244Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
Gross_200544C. 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.
Hughes_199244L. Hughes and B. Rice. “Unpublished data: Traits data for 643 species, Macquarie University”. 1992.
NHNSW_2014_244Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
NHNSW_202244N. H. of New South Wales. The Plant Information Network System of The Royal Botanic Gardens and Domain Trust Version 2.0.. accessed on 6 May, 2022.. 2022. url: https://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/.
Clarke_201533P. 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.
Kubiak_200923P. J. Kubiak. “Fire responses of bushland plants after the January 1994 wildfires in northern Sydney”. Cunninghamia 11.1 (2009), pp. 131-165.
Sjostrom_200633A. 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.
Kew_2019_112Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202222E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant growth forms dataset”. 2022.
ABRS_198111B. 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_611Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Germination data from the Seed Information Database (SID) and Seed Bank Database. 2019. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/.
Wenk_202311E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.