Ficus primaria Corner

Tree up to 30 m tall, with up to 1.5 m high buttresses. Leafy twigs 5-7 mm thick, whitish puberulous to hirtellous, smooth; scars of leaves prominent; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged to subopposite; lamina (sub)obovate to oblong or elliptic (to subpandurate), (8-)15-35 by (4.5-)7-20, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate (to acute), base cordate (with a narrow sinus) to subcordate (to rounded), margin denticulate; upper surface hispid to puberulous, ± scabrous to almost smooth, lower surface white hispidulous to puberulous, scabrous or smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-11 pairs, the basal pairs up to 1/5-1/4 the length of the lamina, branched, the lower lateral veins mostly branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform, the reticulum prominent; waxy glands largely on the midrib below the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, mostly also below the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 1.5-13 cm long, distinctly different in length on the same twig, whitish puberulous to subhirsute or hispidulous to subhispid, the hairs distinctly different in length, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.6-1.3 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous to glabrous (only punctate), caducous, but (sub)persistent in tufts at the apices of the leafy twigs. Figs cauliflorous, clustered on up to 7 cm long branched leafless branchlets with short internodes on the main branches, down to the base of the trunk, ± pendulous; peduncle 2.5-7.5 cm long; peduncular bracts, mostly 2 or 3, scattered, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle pyriform to obovoid, 3-3.5 by 2-2.5 cm when dry, 3.5-5 cm diam. when fresh, densely hispidulous to puberulous, scabrous to smooth, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by 1-2 mm long bracts, pointing upwards and surrounded by a rim, forming a crateriform entrance to the ostiole; internal hairs abundant to sparse. Tepals reddish, those of the pistillate flowers subfiliform, glabrous. Styles glabrous.

It is a tropical plant. It has been recorded along the Golgol River at 125 m above sea level.