Ficus subpisocarpa is a species of small deciduous tree native to Japan, China, Taiwan and southeast Asia to the Moluccas (Ceram).

French botanist François Gagnepain described Ficus subpisocarpa in 1927, from a collection near Haiphong in Vietnam.

It was reduced to a synonym of F. superba variety japonica by E. J. H. Corner in 1965,[4] before being raised to species status again by Cornelis Christiaan Berg in 2005.

[2] There is a high variation in color between trees and seasons; mature figs are whitish pink to dark purple, and are bulbous in shape and measure 0.5 to 0.8 cm (0.20 to 0.31 in) in diameter.

[2] The nominate subspecies is found from Southern Japan, Taiwan, Hainan and eastern China (where it occurs in Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, southern Yunnan and southeastern Zhejiang provinces), through Vietnam, Laos and Thailand into Indonesia where it reaches Ceram in the Moluccas.

[2] In a field study in Taiwan, ants were found to inhabit cavities within internodes of young branches of Ficus subpisocarpa.