Large shrub or strangler to 35 m high, a strangler fig, deciduous, glabrous or some parts sometimes puberulous. Leaves alternate; lamina elliptic to oblong, rarely ovate, (4.2–) 6–15 cm long, 2–6 (–8.8) cm wide, rounded, rarely cuneate or ± cordate at base, entire margin, shortly acuminate at apex, coriaceous; lateral veins 7–13 pairs; petiole (1–) 2–8.5 cm long, channelled above; stipules to 1 (–9?) cm long. Figs axillary, pedunculate, globular, c. 1.5–2.5 cm diam., cream, yellow to orange, pink, red, purple or blackish, mottled white (pale spots), smooth; ostiole 3–4 mm diam., rarely sunken, bracts forming a raised crown; basal bracts caducous, leaving a collar-scar; peduncle (0.5–) 2–3.5 cm long. Male flowers usually ostiolar, pedicellate; tepals 3. Female flowers subsessile, tepals 4 or 5; stigma simple, elongated, sublateral. Gall-stigma bifid.
Grows in monsoon forest and rainforest, often in alluvial soils. In northeast Arnhem Land, Northern Territory, associated with monsoon vine thickets on coastal dune systems; rarely recorded as a hemi-epiphyte or hemi-lithophyte on sandstone and limestone (Dixon 2011: 14).
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