Ficus saxophila Blume

Tree, hemi-epiphytic, secondarily terrestrial, sometimes becoming buttressed trees up to c. 35 m tall. Branches drying red-brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, slightly angular to subterete, glabrous or (minutely) white puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to subovate to elliptic, 7-24 by 4-15 cm, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, the acumen sharp, base cordate to rounded; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)5-7 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/5-1/3 the length of the lamina, mostly branched, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 2-4(-7) cm long, glabrous; stipules 0.3-1 cm long, glabrous or (partly as on the margin) white puberulous to subtomentose, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-4.5 mm long, subtomentose or only ciliolate, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, red at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., prominent, the upper ostiolar bracts ciliolate; internal hairs absent. Staminate flowers near the ostiole. Tepals dark red. Ovary dark red-brown.

Grows on cliffs and limestone pinnacles throughout the island and may also form part of the regeneration vegetation after clearing.