Ficus virens var. virens

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Family Moraceae

Taxonomy: Ficus virens Aiton var. virens

Synonyms: 3 (APC 2026-07-30)

Ficus oreillyana F.Muell. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus saxophila var. sublanceolata Miq. (taxonomic synonym)
Ficus virens var. sublanceolata (Miq.) Corner (taxonomic synonym)

Distribution (APC): WA, NT, Qld

Profiles: APC, Flora of Australia, ALA, iNaturalist, NT eFlora, Florabase, ATRP

Traits

Top source datasets: ABRS_2023 (3), Butler_2004 (4), Cooper_2013 (12), Gross_2005 (8), Kew_2019_1 (3), Kew_2019_6 (3), Kooyman_2011 (28), RussellSmith_2012 (4), Sjostrom_2006 (6), WAH_2022_2 (10), WAH_2023_2 (4), Wenk_2022 (2), Wenk_2023 (1). See below for a full list of sources.
Summary: AusTraits contains 31 traits from 88 records in 13 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): fire_killed (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

flower morphology

sex_type (categorical): monoecious (6) [sources: Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006; WAH_2022_2]

fruit morphology

fruit_length (numerical): 14 mm (8-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_width (numerical): 13.5 mm (7-20 mm) [sources: Cooper_2013]
fruit_type (categorical): syconium (4) [sources: ABRS_2023; Cooper_2013; Gross_2005]
fruit_fleshiness (categorical): dry (2); fleshy (3) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]
fruit_dehiscence (categorical): indehiscent (5) [sources: Cooper_2013; Gross_2005; Sjostrom_2006]

leaf morphology

leaf_length (numerical): 115 mm (40-190 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_width (numerical): 57.5 mm (25-90 mm) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_lobation (categorical): unlobed (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
leaf_compoundness (categorical): simple (3) [sources: ABRS_2023; Kooyman_2011]
plant_photosynthetic_organ (categorical): leaf (1) [sources: ABRS_2023]

life history

plant_growth_form (categorical): climber_woody (1); tree (7) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
life_history (categorical): perennial (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2023]
plant_growth_substrate (categorical): epiphyte (2) [sources: WAH_2022_2]
woodiness_detailed (categorical): woody (3) [sources: WAH_2022_2; Wenk_2022]
leaf_phenology (categorical): deciduous (2) [sources: Kooyman_2011]
dispersal_syndrome (categorical): endozoochory (1) [sources: Butler_2004]
dispersers (categorical): birds (1); vertebrates (1) [sources: Butler_2004; Cooper_2013]
seedbank_longevity_class (categorical): persistent (1) [sources: RussellSmith_2012]

seed morphology

seed_dry_mass (numerical): 0.34 mg (0.23-0.56 mg) [sources: 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): 0.34 mg/mm3 (0.34-0.34 mg/mm3) [sources: Kooyman_2011]

whole plant morphology

plant_height (numerical): 30.4 m (2-40 m) [sources: Cooper_2013; Kooyman_2011; WAH_2023_2]

Sources

dataset_id	n_traits	n_records	reference
Kooyman_2011	10	28	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	10	12	W. Cooper and W. T. Cooper. Australian rainforest fruits. CSIRO Publishing, 2013, p. 272.
WAH_2022_2	5	10	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2022. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
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.
Sjostrom_2006	3	6	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.
Butler_2004	4	4	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.
RussellSmith_2012	4	4	J. Russell-Smith, M. R. Gardener, C. Brock, K. Brennan, C. P. Yates, and B. Grace. “Fire persistence traits can be used to predict vegetation response to changing fire regimes at expansive landscape scales - an Australian example”. Journal of Biogeography 39 (2012), pp. 1657-1668. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2699.2012.02714.x.
WAH_2023_2	1	4	Western Australian Herbarium. Florabase—the Western Australian Flora.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: https://florabase.dpaw.wa.gov.au/.
ABRS_2023	3	3	Australian Biological Resources Study. Flora of Australia, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra.. accessed on 14 September, 2022.. 2023. url: http://www.ausflora.org.au.
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_6	1	3	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.
Wenk_2023	1	1	E. Wenk. “Unpublished data: Australian plant life history dataset, University of New South Wales, Sydney”. 2023.