Twenty-five species of Ficus occur within South Africa, including one endemic, F. bizanae Hutch. & Burtt-Davy, and two subendemics, Ficus burtt-davyi Hutchinson (just entering southern Mozambique) and F. tettensis Hutchinson (also found in Zimbabwe and Botswana). This is eleven less than occur in the southern African subregion (defined as including Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Mozambique south of the Zambezi River, South Africa, Swaziland and Lesotho). The eleven southern African species that do not occur in South Africa are: F. exasperata Vahl, F. pygmaea Hiern, F. vallis-choudae Delile, F. bussei Mildbr. & Burret, F. nigropunctata Mildbr. & Burret, F. rokko Warb. & Schweinf., F. muelleriana Berg, F. fischeri Mildbr. & Burret, F. scassellatii scassellatii Pamp., and F. chirindensis Berg and F. modesta F. White.

Genus: FICUS

• Subgenus: SYCIDIUM

  • Section: SYCIDIUM

    • F. capreifolia Delile

• Subgenus: SYCOMORUS

  • Section: SYCOMORUS

    • Subsection: Sycomorus

      • F. sycomorus sycomorus L.

        • F. sycomorus gnaphalocarpa (Miq.) C.C. Berg

      • F. sur Forsk.

• Subgenus: UROSTIGMA

  • Section: UROSTIGMA

    • Subsection: UROSTIGMA

      • F. ingens (Miq.) Miq.

      • F. cordata cordata Thunb.

      • F. salicifolia Vahl

      • F. verruculosa Warb.

  • Section: Galoglychia

    • Subsection: GALOGLYCHIA

      • F. lutea Vahl

    • Subsection: PLATYPHYLLAE

      • F. glumosa Delile

      • F. stuhlmannii Warb.

      • F. tettensis Hutch.

      • F. abutilifolia (Miq.) Miq.

      • F. trichopoda Baker

    • Subsection: CHLAMYDODORAE

      • F. craterostoma Mildbr. & Burret

      • F. linqua depauperata (Sim) C.C. Berg   

      • F. natalensis natalensis Hochst.

        • F. natalensis graniticola Burrows

      • F. burtt-davyi Hutch.

      • F. ilicina (Sonder) Miq.

      • F. burkei (Miq.) Miq.  (previously synonymised with F. thonningii)

      • F. petersii Warb. (previously synonymised with F. thonningii)

    • Subsection: CAULOCARPAE

      • F. tremula tremula Warb.

      • F. polita polita Vahl

      • F. bizanae Hutch. & Burtt-Davy

      • F. sansibarica sansibarica Warb.

      • F. bubu Warb.