Ficus L.

Flowers attached to the inner wall of the invaginated floral axis (fig or syconium) Ficus

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Shrub or tree, sometimes epiphytic and strangling in early stages

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Leaves smooth on the upper surface. Aerial shoots present. Epiphytes or on rocks in early stages (“Strangler Figs”)

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Leaves green and glabrous on both surfaces

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Mature figs sessile or shortly stalked, mostly in pairs, globular, 6–10 mm diam.

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Figs on short stalk 1–4 mm long; red to orange. Stipules more than 1 cm long. Leaves oblong-lanceolate to elliptic, 4–8 cm long; lateral veins lopping at margins, parallel; reticulations very small, not conspicuous; petioles 6–12 mm long, ± flattened. Tree. Coast and adjacent plateaus. In or near RF. Small-leaved Fig Ficus obliqua

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Figs sessile; white to light brown. Stipules less than 1 cm long. Leaves oblong-elliptic to lanceolate, 5–20 cm long; lateral veins conspicuous; petioles 2.5–6 cm long, terete. Tree. RF. Minnamurra Falls. White Fig Ficus virenssublanceolata