Ficus tulipifera Corner

Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, glabrous (or brownish hirtellous to puberulous). Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, 10-21 by 4.5-8 cm, slightly asymmetric (at least at the base) to almost symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base ± inequilateral to almost equilateral, if inequilateral, then one (the broad) side often slightly decurrent and (sub)auriculate, the narrow side cuneate to rounded, if equilateral, then subcordate (or obtuse to cuneate), margin entire, revolute; upper surface sparsely puberulous to hirtellous on the main veins and glabrescent or glabrous, sometimes scabridulous, lower surface sparsely pilose to subhispid on the main veins to (sub)glabrous, (sparsely) minutely puberulous on the rims of the areoles, scabridulous or smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent above, at least the upper part, the lower part sometimes in a depression, lateral veins 6-11 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/10-1/3 the length of the lamina, branched or unbranched, other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath to flat, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also of other lateral veins; petiole 1.5-3 cm long, glabrous (or hirtellous to puberulous), the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.4-1(-1.5) cm long, glabrous, caducous or subpersistent, always subpersistent on the fig-bearing spurs. Figs on up to 10 cm long spurs or to c. 20 cm long (branched or unbranched) up to 20 cm long branchlets with up to 1.2 cm long subpersistent stipules (at the apex or apices), solitary; peduncle 0.2-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 2-4 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, c. 1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, 0.2-0.4 cm long stipitate, whitish puberulous to subglabrous, orange to red at maturity, apex slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., slightly sunken; internal hairs rather abundant to absent. Tepals red. Stamen 1. Stigmas of short-styled flowers (always?) subpeltate.