A large much branched shrub or small tree, upto 3(4) m tall. Trunk and branches without aerial roots, bark grey or brownish-grey, young shoots reddish-brown, puberulous to glabrescent. Leaves with 5-20 (-30) mm long, ± hairy to glabrous petiole; lamina variable, broadly ovate to orbicular, (2.5-) 3-7.5 (-8.5) and broad, 3-5-costate at the cordate to truncate base, palmately deeply, 3-5-lobes narrow to broadly oblong, 1.543 cm long, 24 cm broad, dentate serrate to shallowly incised, slightly hairy to glabrescent-scabrous beneath, scabrid above; stipules lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, purplish, puberulous. Hypanthodia axillary, solitary, borne on 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, puberulous, peduncles, pyriform to subglobose, 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, 10-12 mm in diam., minutely puberulous, sessile to stipitate, stipe upto 5 mm long; subtended by 3 bracts, apical orifice wide surrounded by several bracts. Male ostiolar, pedicellate; sepals whitish, 4.5, thin, free, stamens 2. Female numerous, subsessile; sepals 5, free; ovary ± triangular, style long, stigma bifid. Figs pale-purple, pyriform to globose, c. 10-12 mm in diem., puberulous to glabrous. A large much branched shrub or small tree, upto 3(4) m tall. Trunk and branches without aerial roots, bark grey or brownish-grey, young shoots reddish-brown, puberulous to glabrescent. Leaves with 5-20 (-30) mm long, ± hairy to glabrous petiole; lamina variable, broadly ovate to orbicular, (2.5-) 3-7.5 (-8.5) and broad, 3-5-costate at the cordate to truncate base, palmately deeply, 3-5-lobes narrow to broadly oblong, 1.543 cm long, 24 cm broad, dentate serrate to shallowly incised, slightly hairy to glabrescent-scabrous beneath, scabrid above; stipules lanceolate, 8-10 mm long, purplish, puberulous. Hypanthodia axillary, solitary, borne on 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, puberulous, peduncles, pyriform to subglobose, 1-1.5 (-2) cm long, 10-12 mm in diam., minutely puberulous, sessile to stipitate, stipe upto 5 mm long; subtended by 3 bracts, apical orifice wide surrounded by several bracts. Male ostiolar, pedicellate; sepals whitish, 4.5, thin, free, stamens 2. Female numerous, subsessile; sepals 5, free; ovary ± triangular, style long, stigma bifid. Figs pale-purple, pyriform to globose, c. 10-12 mm in diem., puberulous to glabrous.General Information
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