Ficus adelpha K.Schum. & Lauterb.

Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, brown hirtellous or strigose, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous to spirally arranged (or subopposite); lamina oblong to subobovate, (4-)8-28 by (1.5-)3.5-9 cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate at the broad side, cuneate to obtuse at the narrow side, margin denticulate to subentire, often ± revolute; upper surface puberulous to hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous to subhispid on the veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with (sparse) shorter and softer white hairs, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (5-)7-11 pairs, sometimes furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, brownish hirtellous to subhirsute, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1.8 cm long, brown strigose, caducous. Figs ramiflorous on up to 20 cm long branched branchlets, cauliflorous on the trunk and main branches, the internodes up to 1 cm long, the nodes with short brown strigillose stipules; peduncle 0.2-2 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1.5-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose, often 1-2 mm long stipitate, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, c. 2.5 (?) cm diam. when fresh, whitish to dark brown subhispid, ± scabrous, without (or with some) lateral bracts, hardly ribbed, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to flat; ostiole 2-4 mm diam., surrounded by 5 apical bracts, slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brown.

It is a tropical plant.