Ficus septicaBurm.f.

WFO wfo-0000690291 Accepted WFO 2026-06 8 photographs CC0 / CC BY

Plate 1 figs. a–h · 8 separate observations

Ficus septica, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. a 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / 2022-06-01 / obs. 202390309
Ficus septica, photographed by 五色鳥
fig. b 五色鳥, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 201111174
Ficus septica, photographed by Cheng-Te Hsu
fig. c Cheng-Te Hsu, CC BY 4.0 / obs. 192802434
Ficus septica, photographed by 葉子
fig. d 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190584706
Ficus septica, photographed by 葉子
fig. e 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 190245849
Ficus septica, photographed by 葉子
fig. f 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184838450
Ficus septica, photographed by 葉子
fig. g 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 184828497
Ficus septica, photographed by 葉子
fig. h 葉子, CC0 1.0 / obs. 185030392

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The specimen a real sheet, in a real collection

Herbarium
The New York Botanical Garden
Accession
04992356
Filed as
Ficus septica Burm.fil.
Det. by
G. M. Plunkett 2021-01-29
Collected
G. M. Plunkett 2018-08-27
Origin
VU
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 16 botanical countries

Regions where Ficus septica is native: Nansei-shoto, Taiwan, Bismarck Archipelago, Borneo, Jawa, Lesser Sunda Is., Malaya, Maluku, New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Is., Sulawesi, Sumatera, Queensland, Santa Cruz Is., Vanuatu TaiwanBismarck ArchipelagoBorneoJawaLesser Sunda Is.MalayaMalukuNew GuineaPhilippinesSolomon Is.SulawesiSumateraQueensland Nansei-shotoVanuatu
Native distribution of Ficus septica, 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
Bismarck Archipelago BIS ASIA-TROPICAL
Borneo BOR
Jawa JAW
Lesser Sunda Is. LSI
Malaya MLY
Maluku MOL
New Guinea NWG
Philippines PHI
Solomon Is. SOL
Sulawesi SUL
Sumatera SUM
Nansei-shoto NNS ASIA-TEMPERATE
Taiwan TAI
Santa Cruz Is. SCZ PACIFIC
Vanuatu VAN
Queensland QLD AUSTRALASIA

Not drawn on the map: Santa Cruz Is.. We hold no public-domain boundary for this region, so it is listed rather than guessed at.

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 2,055 observations

Condition 5th percentile Median 95th percentile
Coldest month, mean daily low 11.4 °C 14.2 °C 20.6 °C
Warmest month, mean daily high 27.3 °C 29.8 °C 31.2 °C
Annual rainfall 1,839 mm 2,690 mm 4,031 mm
Rainfall in the driest quarter 57 mm 144 mm 716 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 2,055 research-grade observations of Ficus septica 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 30 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.

  • Covellia leucantotoma (Poir.) Miq.
  • Covellia leucopleura (Blume) Miq.
  • Covellia radiata (Decne.) Miq.
  • Covellia rapiformis (Roxb.) Miq.
  • Covellia stictocarpa Miq.
  • Covellia venosa Miq.
  • Cystogyne leucosticta (Spreng.) Gasp.
  • Ficus brunnea Merr.
  • Ficus casearia F.Muell. ex Benth.
  • Ficus didymophylla Warb.
  • Ficus geminifolia Miq.
  • Ficus hauili Blanco
  • Ficus kaukauensis Hayata
  • Ficus laccifera Blanco
  • Ficus laxiramea Elmer
  • Ficus leucantatoma Poir.
  • Ficus leucatoma Roem. & Schult.
  • Ficus leucopleura Blume
  • Ficus leucosticta Spreng.
  • Ficus linearis Merr.
  • Ficus oldhamii Hance
  • Ficus paludosa Perr.
  • Ficus philippense hort. ex Hérincq
  • Ficus radiata Decne.

and 6 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. 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.