Ficus curtipes Corner

Tree up to 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to yellowish. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous or (very) minutely white puberulous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina (sub)obovate to oblong to elliptic, 6-15(-18) by 3-6(-8.5) cm, coriaceous, apex rounded (to obtuse), base cuneate, margin flat or ± revolute (towards the base), ± callose (towards the base, mostly extending to the base of the lamina); both surfaces glabrous; midrib slightly prominent to flat above, lateral veins 10-13 pairs, the basal pair ± (to hardly) distinct, up to (1/10-)1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary largely parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole (0.5-)1-2(-3) cm long, 2-3 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish to brown; stipules 1-2 cm long, glabrous or (very) minutely white puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 2-5 mm long, (sub)equal, semicircular to broadly ovate with a rounded apex, glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulous, persistent; receptacle (depressed-) subglobose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, orange (to red?) at maturity, apex slightly convex to flat (to concave?), ostiole 2-3 diam., (almost) flat, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate, sometimes only 2 visible; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary reddish.