Ficus benguetensis Merr.

Shrub or tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, brown to whitish hirtellous to strigillose (or glabrous), nodal waxy glands usually absent, occasionally present; internodes hollow; periderm ± flaking off; older twigs usually with prominent scars of leaves and figs; often small conical ‘buds’ in the leaf axils and on the nodes below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged, (sub)opposite or (sub)distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate (to elliptic or to subovate), (3.5-)8-15(-28) by (1.5-)3-8(-17) cm, ± asymmetric (to almost symmetric), chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base cuneate to rounded (to subcordate), margin entire or ± faintly and irregularly denticulate (or dentate) towards the apex; upper surface sparsely hairy on the main veins (or glabrous), smooth, lower surface ± sparsely brownish to whitish strigillose on the veins (or glabrous), smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (5-)7-9 pairs, occasionally branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands usually absent, present in occasional furcations of lateral veins (of relatively large leaves); petiole 0.5-2(-4) cm long, brown to whitish hirtellous to strigillose, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules 0.8-2 cm long, glabrous or brown appressed-puberulous to strigillose, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, often on minute spurs (also below the leaves, to cauliflorous?); peduncle 0.2-1.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-3(-5) mm long, ± deflexed; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid to ovoid to obovoid, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, ± sparsely puberulous (or glabrous), often with some rather conspicuous lenticels, without lateral bracts, reddish brown at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded by 5 (often ± swollen) apical bracts; internal hairs sparse or absent.