Ficus ruficaulis Merr.

Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 5-10 mm thick, smooth internodes (sub)glabrous or yellowish puberulous, at least along the margins of the conspicuous scars of the stipules; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to ovate to (sub)cordiform, sometimes 3-lobed, 12-28 by 7-18 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin entire; upper surface sparsely brown appressed-puberulous to densely whitish to brownish tomentose on the veins, smooth, lower surface densely brown to whitish hirtellous to subtomentose to rather sparsely puberulous on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 6-8(-9) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands (inconspicuous) in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 3-17 cm long, hirtellous to subtomentose, smooth, the epidermis persistent or sometimes slightly flaking off; stipules 1.2-2 cm long, brownish subtomentose to yellowish subsericeous on the whole surface or only along the midrib, caducous. Figs mostly below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs, with a peduncle 0.2-0.8 cm long (or sessile); basal bracts 3, c. 3 mm long, brown subsericeous; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid to ovoid, 1.5-1.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely to densely pale brown tomentose, ‘seed-figs’ yellow (to red?) at maturity, ‘gall-figs’ greenish at maturity and irregularly longitudinally dehiscent, apex convex or slightly protracted, ostiole 2.5-4 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.