Ficus punctataThunb.

WFO wfo-0000689925 Accepted WFO 2026-06 6 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–f · 6 separate observations

Ficus punctata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. a Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-03-11 / obs. 182526617
Ficus punctata, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. b Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 181648158
Ficus punctata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. c Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 152387286
Ficus punctata, photographed by Nasser Halaweh
fig. d Nasser Halaweh, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 60124914
Ficus punctata, photographed by Forest Botial-Jarvis
fig. e Forest Botial-Jarvis, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 198781406
Ficus punctata, photographed by Cheongweei Gan
fig. f Cheongweei Gan, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 183506622

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
Accession
K000228328
Filed as
Ficus punctata Thunb.
Det. by
Berg, C. C.
Collected
Kessler, P., J. A. et al.
Origin
ID
The sheet
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Native range 16 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus punctata is native: Taiwan, Andaman Is., Borneo, Cambodia, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Nicobar Is., Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam TaiwanBorneoCambodiaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Nicobar Is.
Native distribution of Ficus punctata, after Kew’s World Checklist of Vascular Plants. Introduced, extinct and doubtful records are excluded, so this is where the plant is from, not everywhere it now grows. Regions too small to draw at this scale are marked with a dot.
RegionTDWG codeContinent
Andaman Is. AND ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Nicobar Is. NCB
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
Taiwan TAI ASIA-TEMPERATE

Region boundaries approximated from Natural Earth (public domain) and mapped to TDWG World Geographical Scheme for Recording Plant Distributions (WGSRPD) level-3 botanical countries (Brummitt 2001). Indicative, not the official WGSRPD geometry.

Where it actually grows measured, from 179 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 14.7 °C 24.3 °C 24.9 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 24.2 °C 28.8 °C 30.2 °C
Annual rainfall 2,346 mm 2,527 mm 4,805 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 231 mm 511 mm 775 mm

It is not found anywhere that gets close to freezing. This is not care advice and it is not a forecast. It is a measurement: we sampled the climate at every one of the 179 research-grade observations of Ficus punctata that carry a coordinate, and this is the range those places actually span. The 5th and 95th percentiles are used rather than the minimum and maximum, because a single cultivated specimen in a heated conservatory should not widen a tropical plant's range to the Arctic.

This is not a hardiness zone. A USDA zone is the average annual extreme minimum temperature. The figure above is the mean daily minimum of the coldest month, which is a different quantity and is typically far warmer. Reading one as the other would place a plant several zones too warm, so we do not publish a hardiness zone, because we do not have one.

Also published as 23 synonyms

A synonym is not an error. It is a record of botanists disagreeing, in print, about where this plant belongs. Each of these was somebody’s considered answer.

  • Ficus aurantiacea Griff.
  • Ficus aurantiacea var. angustifolia (Corner) Corner
  • Ficus aurantiacea var. parvifolia (Corner) Corner
  • Ficus elliptica Miq.
  • Ficus falcata Thunb.
  • Ficus gibbosa var. pygmaea Miq.
  • Ficus indica B.Heyne ex Roth
  • Ficus kallicarpa Miq.
  • Ficus kallicarpa var. angustifolia Corner
  • Ficus kallicarpa var. parvifolia Corner
  • Ficus lanyuensis S.S.Ying
  • Ficus macrocarpa Blume
  • Ficus megacarpa Merr.
  • Ficus megacarpa var. angustifolia Sata
  • Ficus megacarpa var. rotundifolia Sata
  • Ficus microcarpa Blume
  • Ficus pomifera Kurz
  • Ficus punctulata Thunb.
  • Ficus simiae H.J.P.Winkl.
  • Ficus terasoensis Hayata
  • Synoecia falcata Miq.
  • Synoecia serpens Miq.
  • Synoecia sumatrana Miq.

Sourcesevery claim on this page

  1. World Flora Online Plant List. accepted name, authority, classification. CC0. Retrieved 2026-07-12.
  2. iNaturalist. photographs and flowering annotations, CC0 / CC BY / CC BY-SA only. per photograph. Retrieved 2026-06-27.
  3. Kew, World Checklist of Vascular Plants (WCVP v16). native distribution by TDWG level-3 botanical country, and life form. CC BY 3.0. Retrieved 2026-06-04.

We publish what we can source and we say so when we cannot. This page has no care advice and no toxicity claim, because we do not yet have those from a source we can cite.