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Botanical descriptions Habitat and ecology Distribution
| Diagnostic characters : | Deciduous trees with low buttresses, bark smooth. Young branches brown tomentose. Exudate sticky, watery, yellowish-white. Leaves simple, alternate. Stipules intrapetiolar, sheathing. Fruit a fig. |
| Habit : | Deciduous tree to 25 m. Crown spreading. |
| Trunk & bark : | Trunk with low buttresses. Bark smooth, light brownish red, finely fissured, inner-bark c. 0.5 cm thick, light yellowish, wood yellow. with small pustules, light brown. |
| Branches and branchlets or twigs : | Young branches terete, densely to sparsely brown tomentose. |
| Exudates : | Exudate sticky watery, yellowish-white. |
| Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, elliptic –oblong to ovate 6-16 x 3.5-8 cm apex acuminate, base subcordate to rounded, below brown hairy on the veins, margin entire. Midrib flat. Primary vein single, secondary veins 5-9, oblique, tertiary veins oblique. Petiole 1-2 mm, terete, hairy. Stipules intrapetiolar, brown hairy, caducous, sheathing, leaving an annular scar. |
| Inflorescences or flowers : | Inflorescence a fig, axillary, usually paired, 0.7-1 cm diameter, peduncle up to 1.3 mm. Flowers unisexual. |
| Fruits : | A fig yellow-red at maturity. |
| Seeds : | Many minute seeds. |