Ficus paraensis Miq.

Shrubs, or small to large trees to 10 m. tall. Twigs 2-7 mm. in diameter, glabrous or minutely puberulent, developing a greyish-brown, striate, periderm. Stipules to 35 mm. long, narrowly deltoid, glabrous or minutely puberulent. Lamina 2.5-9 cm. wide X 6-27 cm. long, oblong, oblong-elliptic, oblong-oblanceolate or oblanceolate, glabrous; apex acuminate, the acumen commonly 5-10 mm. long, but sometimes to 25 mm.; base cordate, emarginate, rounded, or cuneate; lateral veins 9-18 pairs, departing from the midrib at an angle from 10-300; basal veins, at least the strongest, departing from the midrib at an angle from 400 600; intercostals scarcely, or somewhat, prominent. Petiole 5-35 (-80) mm. long, 1/3-1/9 (-1/11) the length of the lamina. Figs 10-18 mm. in diameter, globose to sub-pyriform, glabrous or minutely puberulent, borne among the leaves; color greenish or yellowish, sometimes with red streaks and sometimes with crimson basal bracts; peduncle obsolete to 3 mm. long; basal bracts 2-5 mm. long, ovate, connate, puberulent; ostiole 2-4 mm. in diameter, umbonate, to 3 mm. high.

Young coastal plain, swamp forest, savannah and savannah forests. At elevations up to 600 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.