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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Massive spreading evergreen fig, trunk buttressed, bark smooth. Exudate white. Leaves simple alternate. Stipules intrapetiolar, sheathing. Fruit a fig. |
| Habit : | Massive evergreen ”strangling” frequently free standing to 30 m. Crown spreading. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk with low buttresses. Bark smooth, grey, with small pustules, light brown. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Young branches slightly hairy, terete. |
| Exudates : | Exudate white, copious. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, 5-10 x 1-4 cm, elliptic to ovate ,10-22 x 6-12, glabrous, apex acute, base attenuate to rounded, margin entire. Midrib flat. Primary vein single, secondary veins 6-10, oblique, somewhat looping near the margin, tertiary veins oblique. Petiole 2-5mm, terete, glabrous. Stipules intrapetiolar, puberulous, caducous, sheathing, leaving an annular scar. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence a fig, axillary, solitary or paired, 1-2.5 cm diameter, sessile. Flowers unisexual. |
| Fruits : | A fig reddish orange at maturity. |
| Seeds : | Many minute seeds. |