Description

Deciduous trees, 10‐15 m tall. Bark grayish white, densely yellowish brown woolly. Leaves simple, narrowly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, coriaceous, glabrous or abaxially yellowish brown woolly but glabrescent, adaxially green and glabrous or sparsely shortly pubescent or densely yellowish brown long pubescent but glabrescent, base rounded or cordate to auriculate, apex acute, margin entire or slightly undulate. Inflorescence a syconium. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired, reddish orange to red and with scattered white spots, oblong, pillow-shaped, or conic-ellipsoid, glabrous or densely covered with brownish yellow long hairs. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: long-pedicellate, stamen 1, anther narrowly ellipsoid. Gall flowers: pedicellate; sepals connate, apically 3 or 4 -lobed; Female flowers: white, broadly lanceolate. Fruit achenes, tuberculate.