Tree up to 25 m tall, sometimes with short stilt-roots. Leafy twigs 2-6 mm thick, brown hirsute to subsetose, without nodal glands, hollow or solid with ample pith; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to ovate to cordiform, (6-)13-30 by (3.5-)7-20 cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acute to shortly acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface strigose to hirtellous, ± scabrous, lower surface white puberulous and brown(ish) hirtellous to subtomentose on the veins, scabridulous to scabrous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-12 pairs, the basal pair branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins and smaller ones in the axils of other lateral veins and in the axils of furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 3.5-10 cm long, brown hirsute to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-6 cm long, on the midrib brown hirsute, for the rest minutely white puberulous or glabrous, mostly subpersistent (and the old stipules hanging down). Figs cauliflorous, in globose heads of 1-2 cm diameter, sessile or on up to 3 cm long branchlets with short internodes, these on unbranched or branched up to 3 m long pendulous leafless branchlets with long internodes, down to the base of the trunk; subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.3 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle obconical, 0.4-0.6 cm long and 0.3-0.5 cm wide when dry, angled by compression, glabrous or minutely puberulous, at maturity red, apex subpeltate, concave to flat, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., umbonate, surrounded by 3-5 erect apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.
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A fig. It is a medium sized tree. It grows up to 25 m tall. The stem often has buttresses. The twigs are hairy. The leaves are papery, flat and covered with long reddish brown hairs. The leaves are oval, entire or sometimes with small small teeth along the edge. The fruit are without stalks and in rounded heads. The fruit are angular and red when ripe. They are produced on the stems.
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