Ficus stricta Miq.

Tree up to 40 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish to blackish, often distinctly lenticellate. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous (or minutely white puberulous); periderm often flaking off. Leaves subdistichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)ovate, 8-14 by 3.5-6 cm, coriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin flat, often callose towards the base; both surfaces glabrous; midrib slightly impressed, lateral veins 10-14(-16) pairs, the basal pair not or ± hardly distinct, up to 1/10-1/6 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.9-1.8 cm long, c. 2 mm thick, glabrous, drying pale brown; stipules (0.7-)2-3 cm long, glabrous, drying often pale brown (to blackish), caducous, often involute when dry. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile, initially enclosed in up to 0.7 cm long calyptrate bud covers; basal bracts 3, 3-8(-10) mm long, unequal in size and shape, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, (0.8-)1-1.8 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-3 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous (or sparsely minutely puberulous), yellow to orange to dark red (or pink to purple) at maturity, apex convex to slightly concave, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., ± prominent, ± open, the upper ostiolar bracts usually not fully imbricate, glabrous; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals (partly) red. Ovary partly red to whitish.