Compilation
Sycomorus rigida

a large tree with spreading crown; young branchlets with a circle of long slender hairs just below the node, otherwise glabrous or nearly so; leaves suborbicular or ovate-orbicular, rounded or obtuse at the apex, cordate or rounded at the base, 2–5 in. long, 1 3/4–3 1/2 in. broad, subentire or slightly undulately toothed, dull and glabrous on both surfaces or minutely puberulous below, sometimes slightly scabrous, palmately nerved at the base; midrib prominent below, continued to the apex of the blade; principal pair of basal nerves ascending to above the middle of the leaf-blade, with 8–10 lateral nerves on their lower sides; remaining lateral nerves about 3 on each side of the midrib, diverging from it at an angle of about 40°, distinct on both surfaces, prominent below, bifurcate near the margin; tertiary nerves very slender, wavy between the lateral ones; veins very delicate and close; petiole relatively short, 3/4–1 3/4 in. long, at first finely papillose and pilose, at length glabrous; stipules deciduous, those surrounding the terminal bud lanceolate, villous; receptacles in leafless panicles produced on the main branches or on the stem, obovoid-globose, sometimes stipitate at the base, about 1 in. in diam., with a conspicuous ostiole, softly tomentose; basal bracts 2, opposite, ovate, subcoriaceous, pubescent outside; ostiole with numerous exserted suberect bracts; outer bracts ovate-triangular, subacute, coriaceous, finely puberulous or glabrescent outside, inner ones spreading horizontally across the ostiole, the innermost longer and descending into the receptacle, glabrous; male flowers sessile near the ostiole; perianth membranous, covering the 1–3 stamens; anther-cells free at the base; female flowers shortly pedicellate; style quite lateral, reddish, with an oblong yellow stigma. null