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Habit : | Trees up to 25 m tall, aerial roots numerous, arising in tufts from the stout branches. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark greyish, lenticellate; blaze cream. |
Branches and branchlets : | Young branchlets terete (rugose when dry), brown pubescent. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules 1 cm long, pubescent, caducous leaving annular scar; petiole to 1.5-3.5 cm long, planoconvex in cross section, pubescent; lamina 10-22 x 6-15 cm, broadly elliptic-oblong or ovate, apex acute or acuminate, base rounded or subcordate, margin entire, brown pubescent beneath when young, later glabrescent; midrib raised above; secondary_nerves 8-12 pairs, prominent; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, axillary, solitary, subglobose, sessile, brown pubescent; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, sessile, oblong or obovate, ca. 2.5 cm long, orange yellow when ripe, pubescent; achene smooth. |