Ficus opposita (sandpaper fig)

Ficus opposita Miq. (1848) . 

Zich et al. (2020) Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system (RFK ed. 8), 
quotation: " 

Distribution and Ecology

Occurs in Cape York Peninsula, the wet tropics bio-region NE. Qld, central eastern Qld. and southwards as far as south-eastern Queensland.
Altitudinal range from sea level to 750 m.
Grows in open forest, monsoon forest and beach forest.
Also occurs in Malesia.

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Harden et al (2024) Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria, quotation: "

Habitat and Distribution:

On margins of subtropical rain forest, dry rain forest, littoral rain forest and vine thickets; 
north from Ipswich, Qld, to Torres Strait Islands, N Qld, and in VTs west to the Springsure district; ...
also New Guinea and Malesia.

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Botanical Scholarly Literature References:  

• Australian Plant Name Index (APNI) and Australian Plant Census (APC) (2025): 
Council of the Heads of Australasian Herbaria (CHAH): 
Ficus opposita Miq. (1848): → https://id.biodiversity.org.au/name/apni/92026/api/apni-format . 
Viewed: 2025 September 30th .

• Harden Gwen, Hugh Nicholson, Bill McDonald, Nan Nicholson, Terry Tame and John Williams (2024) [2014]
Rainforest Plants of Au : Rockhampton to Victoria, information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 2 
Ficus opposita 

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Viewed: 2025 September 30th . 

• Zich Frank A, Bernie P M Hyland, Trevor Whiffin, Raelee A Kerrigan (2020) [1971]
Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants information system and botanical matrix identification key - edition 8 ('RFK 8'): 
Ficus opposita Miq. fact sheet: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/text/entities/Ficus_opposita.htm 
Main site web page: → https://apps.lucidcentral.org/rainforest/
Viewed: 2025 September 30th .

• Field, Ashley R, Queensland Herbarium (2025)
Census of the Queensland Flora and Fungi 2024.
Ficus opposita Miq. – "Nature Conservation Act (NCA) Status : Least Concern" .
Queensland Department of Environment, Tourism, Science and Innovation, Queensland Government.
→ http://www.data.qld.gov.au/dataset/census-of-the-queensland-flora-and-fungi-2024
Dataset Accessed: 2025 July 19th . 

• Cooper, Wendy and William T (2004 June) 
Fruits of the Australian Tropical Rainforest.
—pages: (322–) 326 (–329) as nowadays synonym: Ficus opposita Miq. var. opposita (1960) . 
Clifton Hill, Victoria, Australia: Nokomis Editions. ISBN 9780958174213 . 

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