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`A large or medium-sized evergreen or deciduous tree, 6-20 m tall, crown wide when mature. Trunk 2-3 m in circumference, with spreading branches, without aerial roots; bark grey, longitudinally fissured; young twigs sparsely pubescent with pink new leaves. Leaves alternate, pendulous; petiole slender, terete, glabrous, 4-12 cm long; leaf blade broadly ovate or suborbicular, 9-27 cm x 6-16 cm, margin entire, undulate, apex abruptly long acuminate, acumen nearly half as long as lamina, base truncate or +/- cordate, 3-5-veined, secondary veins 5-9 on each side of midvein with several zigzag intercostals; veins projecting on both surfaces. Stipules paired, yellowish-green or yellowish-brown, ovate-oblong or oblong-lanceolate, acuminate, 1.5-2.5(-10) cm long. Hypanthodia sessile, in axillary pairs or solitary, globose to depressed-globose, ca. 1 cm x 1 cm, smooth, yellowish-green, subtended by 3-4 silky-puberulent to glabrescent, broadly ovate-elliptic, 4-6 mm long basal involucral bracts with ciliate margin, internal bristles absent, apical orifice closed by 3 apical bracts. Male Flower: Few in a single whorl or sometimes absent, sessile. Sepals 2-3, free, ovate-lanceolate. Stamen 1, filament short. Female Flowers: Sessile. Calyx 4-lobed, broadly lanceolate. Ovary globose, smooth; style thin; stigma narrow. Gall Flowers: Pedicellate. Calyx 3-4 lobed. Ovary globose, smooth; style short; stigma enlarged, 2-lobed. Figs depressed-globose, ca. 1-1.5 cm in diameter, dark purple on maturity.

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