Ficus superba
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Family Moraceae
Taxonomy: Ficus superba (Miq.) Miq.
Synonyms: none listed in the APC 2026-07-30
Distribution (APC):
Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, ATRP
Traits
Top source datasets: Grubb_1996 (3), NHNSW_2014_2 (2), NHNSW_2022 (3), NHNSW_2023 (19), RBGK_2014 (2), Wright_2000 (3). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 23 traits from 32 records in 6 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
- flower_colour (categorical): blue_purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
fruit morphology
- fruit_length (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_width (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_height (numerical): 20 mm (15-25 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_type (categorical): syconium (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- fruit_colour (categorical): purple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
leaf morphology
- leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (80-150 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_width (numerical): 35 mm (20-50 mm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- petiole_length (numerical): 3.5 cm (2-5 cm) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_shape (categorical): elliptical (1); oblong (1); ovate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_base_shape (categorical): cordate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_margin (categorical): entire (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
- leaf_phyllotaxis (categorical): alternate (1) [sources: NHNSW_2014_2]
- plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: NHNSW_2023]
life history
- plant_growth_form (categorical): tree (2) [sources: Grubb_1996; NHNSW_2022]
- life_history (categorical): perennial (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
- plant_growth_substrate (categorical): hemiepiphyte (1) [sources: Grubb_1996]
- woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (1) [sources: NHNSW_2022]
seed morphology
- seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.62 mg (0.55-0.81 mg) [sources: Grubb_1996; RBGK_2014]
Sources
| dataset_id | n_traits | n_records | reference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NHNSW_2023 | 13 | 19 | N. 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/. |
| 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. |
| NHNSW_2022 | 3 | 3 | N. 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/. |
| Wright_2000 | 3 | 3 | 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. |
| NHNSW_2014_2 | 2 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Sydney. PLantNET: NSW flora online. 2014. url: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/. |
| RBGK_2014 | 1 | 2 | Royal Botanic Gardens Kew. Seed Information Database (SID). 2014. url: http://data.kew.org/sid/. |