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Habit : | Large trees, beginning as epiphytic later become strangler and independent, up to 25 m tall. |
Trunk & Bark : | Bark pale brown to yellowish, smooth; blaze cream. |
Branches and branchlets : | Branchlets stout, terete, glabrous, with annular scars. |
Exudates : | Latex white, profuse. |
Leaves : | Leaves simple, alternate, spiral; stipules to 3.5 cm long, lanceolate, glabrous, caducous leaving annular scars; petiole stout, 2.5-4 (-10) cm long, canaliculate, glabrous; lamina 10-25 x 5-15 cm, ovate, apex acuminate, base rounded to subtruncate, margin slightly undulate, thickly coriaceous, glabrous, drying brown; midrib flat above; secondary_nerves 12-15 pairs, looping near margin; tertiary_nerves broadly reticulate. |
Inflorescence / Flower : | Inflorescence syconia, in axillary pairs, ovoid or obovoid, glabrous; peduncle 1.5-2 cm long; flowers unisexual, occurs with in the inner wall of syconia. |
Fruit and Seed : | Syconium, monoecious, to 2.5 cm across, green, spotted with yellow when ripe, peduncle stout; achenes, obovoid, smooth. |