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Ficus septica, also known as the Hauili fig tree, is a species of shrub or tree in the family found at low altitudes from north-eastern India to northern Australia (), and throughout .

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It lives on the edge of the vegetation, often in degraded environments. The seeds of this species are dispersed by numerous species, including fruit bats () when present.


Taxonomy
Ficus septica was described first by the Dutch botanist Nicolaas Laurens Burman in 1768. Two centuries later, E. J. H. Corner listed three varieties for Ficus septica: F. septica var. septica distributed all over the range of the species; F. septica var. cauliflora limited to , Australia and the ; and F. septica var. salicifolia endemic to the Philippines Islands. Then in the latest edition, Cornelis Christiaan Berg put all these varieties in synonymy together under the name Ficus septica. Within the genus, Ficus septica belongs to the subgenus Sycomorus section Sycocarpus subsection Sycocarpus.


Description
Tree or shrub up to 25 meters. The latex of F. septica is characteristically yellow. Leaves and petioles are both glabrous. Leaves are symmetric, elliptic to oblong. Figs grow often in pairs but can be solitary or in groups of up to four. Figs are depressed-globose to ellipsoid, the apex is flat or concave. Seven to twelve ribs towards to ostiole. At maturity, whitish to yellowish dots appear on the fig. The individuals from Philippines have their stems covered by short hairs while those found in Taiwan are glabrous.


Habitat
Ficus septica trees live up to 1800m in montane forests or secondary growth environments. It can be seen often along rivers. In Taiwan, at the northern limit of its distribution, F. septica lives up to 500m in secondary growths and along roads and coastlines.


Ecology
Ficus septica is pollinated by from the genus . Usually members of the genus Ficus are pollinated by a single species of pollinating fig wasps specific to each fig species, but recent observations of Ficus septica have shown there to be three pollinating species in southern Taiwan and two in the Philippines.

The figs of Ficus septica have been reported to be eaten by 22 animal species and among them 14 are bats:

  • Double-eyed fig parrot
  • Unspecified
  • Black-naped oriole
  • Northern common cuscus
  • Stein's cuscus
  • Common spotted cuscus
  • Lesser short-nosed fruit bat
  • Horsfield's fruit bat
  • Greater short-nosed fruit bat
  • Indonesian short-nosed fruit bat
  • Bare-backed fruit bat
  • Lesser naked-backed fruit bat
  • Long-tongued nectar bat
  • Long-tongued fruit bat
  • Broad-striped tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Common tube-nosed fruit bat
  • Greater musky fruit bat
  • Geoffroy's rousette
  • Common blossom bat

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