Ficus papuana Corner

Tree up to 13 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-8 mm thick, dark to pale brown subhirsute hirtellous, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with (rather sparse) shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm (always?) persistent. Leaves distichous or subopposite; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate, 12-40 by 7-25 cm, strongly asymmetric to almost symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base subcordate to deeply cordate and at the broad side the lobe ± covering the petiole, margin dentate to denticulate; upper surface strigillose to (sub)hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface densely whitish to brownish (sub)hirsute on the main veins (often with ± retrorse hairs) to whitish hirtellous on the veins, smooth smaller, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-15 pairs, most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-3 cm long, white to dark brown (sub)hirsute, the epidermis (always?) persistent; stipules 1-3 cm long, white to brown hirtellous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous or sometimes axillary, mostly in clusters on stout up to 30 cm long branchlets, on the trunk and the main branches; peduncle 0.5-2(-3) cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-6 mm long; receptacle subglobose to pyriform, 2-4 cm diam. when dry, 3-4.5 cm diam. when fresh, sparsely whitish puberulous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± concave to convex, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., surrounded by 5 or 6 erect apical bracts; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brownish.

It is a tropical plant. It has been collected on Daru in PNG.