(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Sycidium; Section: Sycidium)
Northern Australia (Queensland, Northern Territory and Western Australia).
Pollinator: unknown.
Small tree 3-8 metres high, with very coarse sand-papery leaves, occurs in dry monsoonal rainforest or gallery forest.
Photographs © Greg Calvert (Townsville, Australia).
Ficus asperifolia Miquel
Web authors Simon van Noort (Iziko South African Museum)
and Jean-Yves Rasplus (INRA, France)
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