Shrub or tree up to 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, sparsely to rather densely whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous (with curved hairs of about equal length) to glabrous, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm (often) flaking off; scars of the leaves prominent and conspicuous; often small conical ‘buds’ in the leaf axils and on the nodes below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged or subopposite, lamina subobovate to oblong to obovate to elliptic, (5-)8-24(-32) by (1.5-)3-11(-14) cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to cuneate to truncate to subcordate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface white appressed-puberulous on the midrib or glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely white appressed-puberulous (or glabrous) on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, none or some (or most) of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation subscalariform; waxy glands absent or inconspicuous in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina (or in furcations of lateral veins); petiole 1-6 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous or glabrous, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules 1.2-2.6 cm long, (sparsely) white appressed-puberulous or glabrous, caducous or subpersistent. Figs mostly in pairs in the leaf axils, (sub)sessile (or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long); basal bracts 3, 1-7 mm long; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid to obovoid (or to depressed-globose), 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 2-2.5 cm diam. when fresh, sparsely white or brownish puberulous, usually with a few small lateral bracts on the upper part of the receptacle, often ± ribbed, brownish yellow or greenish yellow at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 4-6 mm diam., surrounded by 2 or 3 rows of ± erect apical bracts, the outer ones often at some distance from the ostiole; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a small tree. It grows 5-15 m tall. The leaves are alternate and simple. The leaves are broadly oval and 11-32 cm long by 4-15 cm wide. The fruit is a fig. It is oval and 1-3 cm across. It is yellow-brown. There are often 1-2 together in the axils of leaves along the twigs.
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