Ficus sagittataVahl

rooting fig

WFO wfo-0000690167 Accepted WFO 2026-06 5 photographs CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–e · 1 observation

This species has been photographed under an open licence only 1 time, so some figures below are different views of the same plant, taken on the same day, rather than different individuals. They are usually different parts of it: the leaf, the flower, the bark.

Ficus sagittata, photographed by Samuel Lee
fig. a Samuel Lee, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-04-06 / obs. 186494623

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
205376
Filed as
Ficus sagittata J.Koenig ex Vahl
Det. by
A. Kitalong 2007-01-01
Collected
M. J. Balick 2007-08-07
Origin
PW
The sheet
View the digitised specimen (CC BY 4.0)

A real pressed plant, in a real collection, under the accession number above. Not an illustration of one. The holding institution does not serve this sheet’s image to third parties, so there is no photograph here. The record is real and the link goes to it. Where we hold no openly licensed sheet for a species this section is simply absent, and where a sheet never recorded who determined it, that field stays empty rather than being filled in. Roughly half of all herbarium sheets never recorded a determiner, which is ordinary.

Native range 21 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus sagittata is native: China South-Central, China Southeast, Hainan, Andaman Is., Assam, Bangladesh, Borneo, Cambodia, East Himalaya, Jawa, Laos, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, Myanmar, Philippines, Sulawesi, Sumatera, Thailand, Vietnam, Caroline Is. China South-CentralChina SoutheastHainanAssamBangladeshBorneoCambodiaEast HimalayaJawaLaosLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuMyanmarPhilippinesSulawesiSumateraThailandVietnam Andaman Is.Caroline Is.
Native distribution of Ficus sagittata, 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
Assam ASS
Bangladesh BAN
Borneo BOR
Cambodia CBD
East Himalaya EHM
Jawa JAW
Laos LAO
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
Myanmar MYA
Philippines PHI
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Thailand THA
Vietnam VIE
China South-Central CHC ASIA-TEMPERATE
China Southeast CHS
Hainan CHH
Caroline Is. CRL PACIFIC

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.

Also published as 25 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 adhaerens Miq.
  • Ficus bordeni Merr.
  • Ficus carophylla Hort.Leyden. ex Miq.
  • Ficus coccinella Zipp. ex Miq.
  • Ficus compressicaulis Blume
  • Ficus crininervia Miq.
  • Ficus lanaoensis Merr. ex Sata
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. adhaerens (Miq.) Miq.
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. borneensis Miq.
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. crassa Miq.
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. oligosperma (Miq.) Miq.
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. subglabra Miq.
  • Ficus leptocarpa var. timorensis Miq.
  • Ficus oligosperma Miq.
  • Ficus radicans Desf.
  • Ficus ramentacea Roxb.
  • Ficus ramosii Merr. ex Sata
  • Ficus rigescens Miq.
  • Ficus rubrocarpa Elmer
  • Ficus sagittata var. adhaerens (Miq.) Corner
  • Ficus sagittata var. minor Corner
  • Ficus sagittata var. oligosperma (Miq.) Corner
  • Ficus subrigida Miq.
  • Ficus tayabensis Elmer

and 1 more.

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. USDA PLANTS Database. common name, checklist symbol FISA2. public domain. Retrieved 2026-07-13.
  4. 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.