Ficus cereicarpa Corner

Tree up to 9 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-9 mm thick, whitish to brown villous to subhirsute or to substrigose, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent; scars of leaves conspicuous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subobovate to subpandurate to oblong to elliptic to subovate, 13-30(-50) by 6.5-13(-30) cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin entire or denticulate towards the apex; upper surface (sparsely) whitish to brown villous on the midrib, for the rest (or entirely) subglabrous, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface whitish hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-18 pairs, some or most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins (sometimes on the midrib) and in the furcations of lateral veins; petiole (2-)5-18 cm long, white to brown villous, glabrescent, the epidermis persistent; stipules (1.5-)2.5-5 cm long, whitish to brown villous to subsericeous to subhirsute, caducous or subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous clustered on unbranched or branched lateral branches (with short internodes and up to 1 cm long subpersistent stipules) of stout up to 30 cm long branchlets, on the base of the trunk (and ending in the soil); peduncle 0.5-1(-4) cm long; basal bracts ± scattered or 3 and verticillate, (3-)5-12 mm long; receptacle pyriform to obovoid to subglobose, 2-5 cm diam. when dry, 3-8 cm diam. when fresh, villous to glabrous or glabrescent, with some or numerous up to 1.5 cm long curved lateral bracts scattered or (if some, then often) in a whorl at the apex of the receptacle (or without lateral bracts), often faintly ribbed, orange at maturity, apex flat to ± concave, ostiole (5-)8-12 mm diam. (including the rosette of bracts around the orifice); internal hairs abundant; wall thick.

It is a tropical plant. It grows in tropical damp forests near streams. It grows up to 1,600 m above sea level and is common at about 1,000 m.