A deciduous, small to medium-sized tree or strangler up to 20 m tall, bole often fluted, bark surface flaky, silvery grey. Leaves arranged spirally, ovate to broadly ovate, 7.5-17.5 cm x 5-12.5 cm, base cordate to rounded, apex acuminate, margin entire or wavy, palmately veined at base, with 4-6 pairs of lateral veins, glabrous, stipules 1-2.5 cm long. Figs paired, sessile, globose, 10-15 mm in diameter, glabrous, whitish with dark spots, ripening pink or purple, then black. Flowers, male, gall and female within the same fig; male flowers few, with 2(-3) free tepals and 1 stamen, female flowers sessile or shortly stipitate, with 3 fused tepals. |
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