Taxon: Ficus microcarpa L. f.

Common names:

• Chinese banyan   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• curtain fig   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• Hill's weeping fig   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• Indian laurel fig   (Source: AH 505 ) – English
  
• Indian-laurel   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• laurel fig   (Source: F LAnt ) – English
  
• Malay banyan   (Source: Dict Gard ) – English
  
• small-fruit fig   (Source: Aust Pl Common Names ) – English
  
• rong shu   (Source: F ChinaEng ) – Transcribed Chinese
  
• Vorhang-Feige   (Source: Zander ed17 ) – German
  
• gajumaru   (Source: F Japan ) – Japanese Rōmaji
  
• figueira-lacerdinha   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• laurel-da-Índia   (Source: D. Groth, p.c. 2005) – Portuguese (Brazil)
  
• citronfikus   (Source: Vara kulturvaxt namn ) – Swedish
  

More:

see MMPND for additional names in foreign scripts

Economic importance:

• Environmental: ornamental   (fide Dict Gard; F ChinaEng; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Environmental: shade/shelter   (fide Dict Gard; F ChinaEng; Invasive Pl Spec)
  
• Medicines: folklore   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):284. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  
• Weed   (fide Pl Res SEAs 12(1):284. 1999; Herbs Commerce ed2)
  

Distributional range:

• ASIA-TEMPERATE
  China: China - Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hainan, Yunnan, Zhejiang [s.]
  Eastern Asia: Japan - Ryukyu Islands; Taiwan
• ASIA-TROPICAL
  Indian Subcontinent: Bhutan; India; Nepal; Sri Lanka
  North Indian Ocean: Cocos (Keeling) Islands
  Indo-China: Cambodia; Laos; Myanmar; Thailand; Vietnam
  Malesia: Christmas Island; Indonesia - Celebes, Irian Jaya, Java, Lesser Sunda Islands, Moluccas, Sumatra; Malaysia; Papua New Guinea; Philippines
• AUSTRALASIA
  Australia: Australia - Queensland
• PACIFIC
  Northwestern Pacific: Micronesia [Truk]; Palau
  Southwestern Pacific: New Caledonia; Solomon Islands

• NORTHERN AMERICA
  United States [s.e.]
• PACIFIC
  North-Central Pacific: United States - Hawaii
• SOUTHERN AMERICA
  Caribbean: West Indies
  Mesoamerica: Central America
  South America

• also cultivated

References:

• Aldén, B., S. Ryman & M. Hjertson. 2009. Våra kulturväxters namn - ursprung och användning. Formas, Stockholm (Handbook on Swedish cultivated and utility plants, their names and origin).
• Conant, P. et al. 1997. Appendix. Selected plant species interfering with resource management goals in North American natural areas. In: Luken, J. O. & J. W. Thieret, eds., Assessment and management of plant invasions. 255–267.
• Dassanayake, M. D. & F. R. Fosberg, eds. 1980–. A revised handbook to the flora of Ceylon.
• Erhardt, W. et al. 2002. Zander: Handwörterbuch der Pflanzennamen, 17. Auflage.
• George, A. S., ed. 1980–. Flora of Australia.
• Grierson, A. J. C. & D. J. Long. 1984–. Flora of Bhutan including a record of plants from Sikkim.
• Groth, D. 2005. pers. comm. [re. Brazilian common names].
• Hara, H. et al. 1978–1982. An enumeration of the flowering plants of Nepal.
• Howard, R. 1974–1989. Flora of the lesser Antilles.
• Huxley, A., ed. 1992. The new Royal Horticultural Society dictionary of gardening.
• Integrated Botanical Information System (IBIS). Australian plant common name database (on-line resource).
• Iwatsuki, K. et al. 1993–. Flora of Japan.
• Li, H. L. et al., eds. 1975–1979. Flora of Taiwan.
• McGuffin, M., J. T. Kartesz, A. Y. Leung, & A. O. Tucker. 2000. Herbs of commerce, ed. 2.
• Nicolson, D. H. et al. 1988. An interpretation of Van Rheede's Hortus Malabaricus. Regnum Veg. 119:186–187.
• Ohwi, J. 1965. Flora of Japan (Engl. ed.).
• Padua, L. S. de et al., eds. 1999. Medicinal and poisonous plants 1. In: Faridah Hanum, I. & L. J. G. van der Maesen, eds., Plant Resources of South-East Asia (PROSEA). 12(1):284.
• Porcher, M. H. et al. Searchable World Wide Web Multilingual Multiscript Plant Name Database (MMPND) (on-line resource).
• Stanley, T. D. & E. M. Ross. 1983–1989. Flora of south-eastern Queensland.
• Steenis, C. G. G. J. van, ed. 1948–. Flora malesiana.
• Terrell, E. E. et al. 1986. Agric. Handb. no. 505.
• Walker, E. 1976. Flora of Okinawa and the southern Ryukyu Islands.
• Weber, E. 2003. Invasive plant species of the world: a reference guide to environmental weeds.
• Whitmore, T. C. et al., eds. 1989. Tree flora of Indonesia, Check list for Kalimantan.
• Wu Zheng-yi & P. H. Raven et al., eds. 1994–. Flora of China (English edition).

More:

Search AGRICOLA article citation database for citations referencing Ficus microcarpa.

Search NCBI's Entrez search engine for PubMed citations referencing Ficus microcarpa.

Search Biodiversity Heritage Library for historical publications referencing Ficus microcarpa.

Synonyms:

• (=) Ficus microcarpa var. latifolia (Miq.) Corner
  (previously associated with 1 accession)
• (=) Ficus nitida auct.
  
• (=) Ficus retusa auct.
  
• (=) Urostigma accedens var. latifolia Miq.
  

Check other web resources for Ficus microcarpa L. f.:

• PLANTS: USDA-NRCS Database of Plants of the United States and its Territories
• BONAP: North American Plant Atlas of the Biota of North America Program
• Flora of China: Online version from Harvard University
• AVH: Australia's Virtual Herbarium
• ABRS: Australian Biological Resources Study Flora of Australia online
• TROPICOS: Nomenclatural and Specimen Database of the Missouri Botanical Garden
• Mansfeld: Mansfeld's World Database of Agricultural and Horticultural Crops
• ePIC: Electronic Plant Information Centre of Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew
• AGRICOLA: Article Citation Database or NAL Catalog of USDA's National Agricultural Library
• Entrez: NCBI's search engine for PubMed citations, GenBank sequences, etc.

Check other web resources for images:

• PlantSystematics.org
• Note: Be advised that their identity may be inaccurate. Proper identification of a plant may require specialized taxonomic knowledge or comparison with properly documented herbarium material.

Abbreviations & symbols in GRIN Taxonomy

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