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Shrub or small tree, up to 6 m high, forest liane or strangler, more rarely on rocks. Leaves alternate, simple, elliptic, obovate or oblanceolate (30-120 x 10-50 mm), thinly leathery, slightly glossy above, hairless, base rounded to tapering, distinct pair of V-shaped veins arising from base, apex variously pointed, margins entire, slightly inrolled; petioles 4-25 mm long. Syconia (figs) borne singly or in pairs on twigs of previous year’s growth, round, ± 12 mm in diam., smooth with few small warts, hairless, yellowish green when ripe; ostiole not prominent; stalk up to 9 mm long.
A fig. It is a shrub or small scrambling tree. It can be a woody creeper in the forest. The main stem is short and there are often several stems. The bark is smooth and silvery grey. It has a milky sap when cut. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are narrowly oval and 3-12 cm long by 1-5 cm wide. They have a distinct V shaped pair of veins from the base. The fruit or figs occur singly or in pairs on the twigs of the previous years growth. They are round and 12 mm across.
Monoecious shrub or liane to 5 m, bark greyish. Leaves elliptic, lateral veins ± 5. Figs axillary, pedunculate, 5-7 mm diam., yellowish.
Receptacle globose, 5–12 mm. in diam. when dry; sparsely minutely puberulous, wall thin, dark brown to black at maturity.
Figs in pairs or solitary in the leaf axils; peduncle 1–4(7) mm. long; basal bracts 1–1.5 mm. long, persistent.
Tree up to 8 m. tall, a scrambling shrub or ± lianescent, terrestrial or epilithic.
Leafy twigs 1.5–3 mm. thick, puberulous, periderm not flaking off.
