Compilation
Ficus ruficeps

a tree up to 60 ft. high; young branchlets crisped-pubescent, at length nearly glabrous, ribbed when dry; leaves oblanceolate, elliptic-oblanceolate or obovate-lanceolate, narrowed to an obtuse base or rarely rounded to the base, very shortly and obtusely pointed, 1 3/4–3 1/2 in. long, 3/4–1 1/2 in. broad, thinly but rather rigidly chartaceous, glabrous on both surfaces; lateral nerves 6–8 on each side of the midrib, slightly arcuate, conspicuous on both surfaces, but more prominent below, looped within the margin; tertiary nerves and veins lax and nearly as prominent below as the lateral nerves; petiole up to 2 in. long, slender, glabrous; stipules caducous; receptacles axillary, mostly paired, quite sessile, ovoid, brown, tomentose when mature, about 4 1/2 lin. long and 3 1/2 lin. in diam., with a conspicuous pore-like ostiole; basal bracts small and deciduous; bracts of the ostiole descending vertically into the receptacle, glabrous; male flowers with a membranous glabrous perianth and a solitary stamen. null