Description

Deciduous or semideciduous trees, epiphytic when young, with buttress or prop roots. Bark greenish-grey, smooth. Leaves simple, alternate, obovate, narrowly lanceolate, ovate-lanceolate, or elliptic-ovate, thin coriaceous, base bluntly rounded, cuneate, or cordate, apex acuminate to shortly acuminate, margin entire. Inflorescence a syconium. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired or solitary or in clusters on leafless older branchlets, purple red when mature, globose. Flowers unisexual, within the same fig. Male flowers few, near apical pore, sessile; female and gall flowers pedicellate. Achenes wrinkled on surface.