| Description : | Trees stems often basally many branched, epiphytic when young. Bark pale grayish, smooth. Branchlets green,. Stipules lanceolate to ovate-lanceolate, Petiole robust; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to ovate-elliptic, , thickly leathery, abaxially pale green, adaxially dark green, base cuneate, margin entire, apex rounded;. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired, dark red to purplish red when mature, globose to depressed globose, Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: pedicellate; calyx lobes 3, lanceolate; stamen 1. Gall flowers: sessile or pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; ovary white; style subapical, long. Female flowers: sessile; style apical, persistent, as long as achene; stigma funnelform. Achenes ovoid, with a sticky surface membrane, tuberculate. Fr. late autumn to early winter. |
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