Ficus asperiuscula Kunth & C.D.Bouché

Shrub up to 2 m tall. Branchlets drying (red-)brown. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, whitish puberulous to subhirtellous, (partly) with (often ± retrorse) uncinate hairs, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong (to lanceolate) or to ovate (or to subobovate) and pinnately lobed to fid, 5-14 by 1.5-7 cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base (almost) equilateral to inequilateral, rounded to subcordate or to cuneate, margin dentate (to lobate) or subentire, often ± revolute; upper surface sparsely to rather densely (minutely) hispidulous, ± scabrous to smooth, lower surface sparsely minutely to rather densely hispidulous to (sub)puberulous, (partly) with uncinate hairs, ± scabrous to smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 4-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/6-1/3 the length of the lamina, if running close to the margin of the lamina then unbranched, if at some distance then branched, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of both or one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-5.5) cm long, puberulous, (partly) with (often ± retrorse) uncinate hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul to amplexicaul, 0.3-0.5 cm long, puberulous, keeled, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary, or (mostly 4) clustered on short spurs; peduncle 0.2-0.4 cm long; peduncular bracts 1-3, scattered, 2 opposite, or 3 verticillate, mostly near the base, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose to ellipsoid, 0.5-1.2 cm diam. when dry, 1.2-1.5 cm diam. when fresh, white puberulous to subhispidulous, with (often ± retrorse) uncinate hairs, smooth to scabridulous, without lateral bracts, (‘seed figs’) red to purple-black or (‘gall figs’) pale red at maturity, apex convex to ± umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded by a rim, the outer ostiolar bracts pointing upwards; internal hairs absent or few. Tepals whitish, glabrous or minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in Sumatra.