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Habit : | Large trees with aerial roots, beginning as epiphytic later become strangler and independent. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark grey, lenticellate; blaze yellowish. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets subterete, glabrous, lenticellate, with short internodes. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules to 1.5 cm long, lanceolate, subglabrous, caducous leaving annular scar; petiole 0.5-2 cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 2.5-11 x1.5-6 cm, elliptic, elliptic-obovate, apex shortly acuminate with blunt tip or obtuse, base cuneate or acute, margin entire, coriaceous, glabrous; midrib flat above; suprabasally 3-nerved (two lateral nerves reaches half way or more), secondary_nerves 4-9 pairs; tertiary_nerves admedially ramified. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, sessile, in axillary pairs, globose, 0.7 cm across, glabrous; flowers unisexual. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, to 1 cm across, globose, glabrous, yellowish with brown dots when ripe; achenes smooth. |