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A fig. It is a shrub. It grows up to 4-7 m tall. The bark is pale whitish and smooth. The stems are slender and it has few branches. The branches are often long and whip-like. The leaves are oval and 11 cm long by 4.5 cm wide. They are dark green and have a very rough surface. They resemble sandpaper. The base is narrowly lobed and it tapers to the tip. The edges often have teeth. The fig fruit occur singly and are pear shaped. They are up to 10 cm long. They are grey green and have a rough skin. They are produced on fairly long stalks in the axils of leaves.
Leaves ± distinctly distichous and alternate or subopposite to subverticillate; lamina subovate to oblong or lanceolate, sometimes elliptic, 2–15 x 1–5.5 cm., symmetrical, chartaceous, apex acute, obtuse or rounded, 3-lobed or 3-dentate, base rounded to obtuse or cuneate, margin subentire or ± faintly crenate; both surfaces scabrous; lateral veins 5–12 pairs; petiole 2–10(25) mm. long; stipules 5–10 mm. long, partly puberulous, mostly subpersistent.
Figs solitary or in pairs in the leaf axils; peduncle 5–15 mm. long with 3 small bracts scattered or whorled; receptacle stipitate, without bracts on the outer surface, 1.5–3 cm. in diam. when fresh, globose, often pyriform and 1–2.5 cm. in diam. when dry, hispidulous, green to pale yellow at maturity, stipe up to c. 5 mm. long.
Shrub or small slender tree, up to 7 m high. Leaves scabrous on both sides, margins uneven to irregularly scalloped, oblong. Figs stalked, 10-20 mm in diameter, scabrid.
Leafy twigs 1–5 mm. thick, puberulous to hirsute.
Stems slender, usually with stiff branches.
Shrub up to 6 m. tall.
