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Medium-sized trees, evergreen, usually epiphytic. Branchlets pale yellow to yellowish brown, smooth. Stipules caducous, yellow and white, lanceolate, 1.5-2.5 cm, thinly membranous. Leaves alternate; petiole thick, curved, 0.5-1.5 cm, with scurfy hairs; leaf blade narrowly ovate, ± symmetric, 16-22 × 4-6.5 cm, leathery, glabrous, stoma impressed, base slightly oblique, apex mucronate; basal lateral veins not elongated, secondary veins 6-11 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary or paired, yellowish orange to purplish brown when mature, ovoid, 8-10 mm in diam., smooth; peduncle 3-6 mm; involucral bracts absent. Male flowers: calyx lobes 4, white or yellow; stamen 1(or 2), rudimentary ovary absent. Gall flowers: sessile or shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; ovary ellipsoid to obovoid, smooth; style lateral or apical; stigma enlarged. Achenes ellipsoid, 8-10 mm in diam.
A fig. It is a medium size tree. It grows 10-20 m tall and spreads 10-25 m wide. It has a rounded or pointy crown. It has strangling roots but not aerial roots. The trunk can vary in length and has irregular flanges in it. The bark is grey and leathery. The young shoots are pale green. The leaves are simple and 10-20 cm long by 6-8 cm wide. They are oval. They are dark green and shiny on the upper surface and paler underneath. There is a flat gland where the midrib and first side vein join. The leaf stalks are 0.5-1 cm long. The fig fruit are 2-3 cm across. They are round and pink brown and produced in the axils of leaves. The surface of the fruit is rough. When they are ripe the fruit are orange to dark red.
Tree to 10 (–30) m high, often a strangler. Leaves distichous to alternate; lamina elliptic to oblong, often slightly asymmetrical, 8–20 (–30) cm long, 4–7 (–11) cm wide, rounded to cuneate, often decurrent at base, acuminate at apex, glabrous, coriaceous; lateral veins 10–12 pairs; petiole 1–1.5 cm long; stipules 0.5–2 cm long. Figs ± globular, 1–1.7 cm long, 0.7–1.8 mm wide, orange to red or almost black, finely scabrid; ostiole umbonate, 2 mm diam., a few apical bracts protruding; peduncle to 5 mm long; pedicel 5 mm long; basal bracts 3, often at base of pedicel. Male flowers subsessile; stamen 1. Female flowers subsessile; tepals 3 or 4.
