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Ficus fraseri, the white sandpaper fig or shiny sandpaper fig, is one of several fig species commonly known as sandpaper figs. It is native to New South Wales, Queensland and the Northern Territory in Australia and to New Caledonia and Vanuatu.[3][4] Other common names are "figwood" and "watery fig".[1][5]

Ficus fraseri
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Plantae
Clade:	Tracheophytes
Clade:	Angiosperms
Clade:	Eudicots
Clade:	Rosids
Order:	Rosales
Family:	Moraceae
Genus:	Ficus
Subgenus:	F. subg. Sycidium
Species:	F. fraseri
Binomial name
Ficus fraseri Miq.[1][2]
Synonyms
Ficus aspera var. subglabra Benth. Ficus aspera var. abbreviata Miq. Ficus subglabra (Benth.) F.Muell. Ficus stenocarpa F.Muell. ex Benth. Ficus stephanocarpa var. subglabra (Benth.) Maiden & Betche Ficus proteus Bureau[3]

It grows as either a shrub or tree with height ranging from around 6 to 15 metres.[6][7] Its leaves are 6 to 14 cm long and 2.5 to 6.5 cm wide on petioles that are 1 to 2 cm long.[6] The rounded figs are 1 to 1.5 cm long and start out yellow in colour, maturing to orange-red between May and February in the species' native range.[6] They are edible, but insipid.[8]

In Australia, the species occurs from Tuggerah Lake in New South Wales, northwards to the Atherton Tableland in Queensland,[6][7] and rarely in the Northern Territory.[4]

The grey-headed flying fox feeds on the figs.[9]

Although rarely seen in cultivation, it is a fast-growing, ornamental species.[7] It can be easily propagated from seed.[7]

Distribution

Chew[4] states that F. fraseri is found in the Northern Territory, a statement repeated by Govaerts et al.[3] However, Harden (1990)[6] gives New South Wales and Queensland as the only Australian states where it is found. Botanists in Australia seem in little doubt about where it is found when the Australasian Virtual Herbarium data are consulted, giving a distribution map.[10] GBIF, unlike the Australian Plant Name Index and Plants of the World online, states that Ficus fraseri is a synonym of Ficus virens Aiton. However, Australian botanists clearly distinguish the two species. (See the occurrence map for F. virens.[11])

Taxonomy

It was first described by Miquel in 1848.[2]

References

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На других языках

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- [en] Ficus fraseri

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[es] Ficus fraseri

Ficus fraseri, la Higuera lija blanca (White Sandpaper Fig) o Higuera lija brillosa (Shiny Sandpaper Fig), es una especie de ficus comúnmente conocidas como higueras lija. Es nativo de Nueva Gales del Sur y Queensland en Australia y Nueva Caledonia.[1] Nombres más ambiguos son palo de higo e higuera de agua.[2][3]

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[ru] Ficus fraseri

Ficus fraseri (лат.) — кустарник или дерево, вид рода Фикус (Ficus) семейства Тутовые (Moraceae). Произрастает в Австралии (Новый Южный Уэльс, Квинсленд и Северная территория), а также в Новой Каледонии и Вануату[4][5][2][6].

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