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Information Tree up to 15 m. tall, hemi-epiphytic, soon terrestrial; crown flat-topped. Leafy twigs 4–10 mm. thick, glabrous or puberulous, periderm not flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to elliptic, (4)6.5–17 x (3)5–11 cm., coriaceous; apex acuminate, sometimes subacute or rounded, base cordate to truncate, sometimes rounded; margin entire; both surfaces glabrous; lateral veins 9–15 pairs, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins or reticulate; petiole 2.5–10 cm. long, (1)1.5–3 mm. thick; stipules 3–8 mm. long, glabrous or puberulous, caducous. Figs solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils; peduncle 8–18 mm. long; basal bracts 2–2.5 mm. long, caducous. Receptacle globose, 1.5–2 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1.5–2 cm. in diam. when dry, glabrous or minutely brownish puberulous; yellowish green at maturity; wall of fruiting fig c. 2 mm. thick when dry, ± wrinkled.

Information A tree up to 50 ft. high; branchlets thick, terete, glabrous. Leaves ovate, slightly attenuated to the apex, slightly and rather widely cordate or rounded at the base, 4–7 in. long, 2 3/4–4 1/2 in. broad, entire, thinly chartaceous, glabrous and dull on both surfaces or slightly shining above; midrib slightly raised above, prominent below, about 1 1/4 lin. broad at the base, gradually tapered to the apex of the blade; lateral nerves numerous, about 16 on each side of the midrib, several radiating from the base of the midrib, the others diverging from it at an angle of 55°, nearly straight, prominently looped near the margin, very slender and slightly prominent on both surfaces; tertiary nerves laxly reticulate, distinct on both surfaces; veins very fine and scarcely visible; petiole 1 1/2–3 in. long, widened towards the base, glabrous; stipules early deciduous. Receptacles fasciculate on the stem (or perhaps the main branches), pedunculate, broadly ellipsoid-globose, truncate at both ends, with a sunken beak-like ostiole, 2/3– 3/4 in. long, 2/3 in. in diam., slightly wrinkled and deep straw-coloured when dry, glabrous; peduncle about 1/2 in. long, about 3/4 lin. thick, thickened towards the apex, glabrous. Basal bracts early deciduous, their bases connate and expanded into a glabrous plate-like disc closely adpressed to the receptacle. Ostiole 2-lipped; bracts all descending into the receptacle. Receptacular wall firm, 1 1/4–1 1/2 lin. thick. Male flowers shortly pedicellate; stamen solitary.