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Ficus capensis

a shrub or small cauliflorous tree; branchlets glabrous or softly pubescent, with pointed more or less villous buds; leaves ovate or ovate-elliptic, obtuse or shortly acuminate, rounded, slightly cordate or shortly cuneate at the base, 2 1/2–9 in. long, 1 1/2–5 in. broad or sometimes more, usually coarsely repand and obtusely dentate, chartaceous or thinly coriaceous, glabrous or softly pubescent especially on the midrib and lateral nerves; midrib prominent below, gradually narrowed to the apex of the blade; lateral nerves usually about 6–7 on each side of the midrib, diverging from the midrib at an angle of about 45°, arcuate, gradually fading towards the margin and branched; veins rather closely reticulate below; petiole variable, up to 3 in. long, sulcate, glabrous or pubescent; stipules oblong-lanceolate, acute, villous or nearly glabrous outside, caducous; receptacles borne in leafless simply branched panicles on the main stem or when shrubby towards the base of the branches; panicles up to nearly 1 ft. long, glabrous or nearly so; peduncles 1/3– 1/2 in. long, glabrescent; receptacles obovoid or obovoid-globose, subrounded or stipitate at the base, 3/4–1 in. long, with a usually prominent mammillate ostiole, glabrous; basal bracts whorled, 3, ovate-triangular, often slightly hairy; ostiole prominent, with numerous often hairy bracts spreading transversely across the orifice; male flowers subsessile; perianth hyaline, enveloping the 2 subsessile anthers; female flowers very shortly pedicellate; perianth-segments oblong-lanceolate, acute, membranous, glabrous; achene obliquely ellipsoid, shining; style laterally inserted. null