| Type | Indigenous |
|---|---|
| Family | Moraceae |
| Habit | Medium sized tree |
| Botanical Features | Large trees with aerial roots, bole buttressed; bark greyish-brown, smooth; blaze dull-yellow; exudation milky; branchlets glabrous. Leaves simple, alternate spiral; stipule 12-15 mm long, lateral, ovate, grey-puberulus; petiole 40-80 mm long, slender, grooved above, swollen at base, articulated, glabrous, deciduous at base of the lamina; lamina 10-19 x 4-10 cm, ovate-oblong or broadly ovate, base round, subcordate or slightly cuneate, apex obtusely acuminate, margin entire, glabrous, coriaceous; 3-ribbed from base; lateral nerves 7-14 pairs, pinnate, slender, obscure; intercostae reticulate, obscure. Flowers unisexual; inflorescence a syconia, 2-8 in the axils of leaf scars and on the twigs just behind; peduncle 1-4 mm long, puberulous, basal bracts 3 free or usually jointed in a glabrous or puberulous disc of 3-4 mm across, splitting into 4-6 lobes, persistent, body subglobose, glabrous, orifice closed by 3 flat or slightly prominent apical bracts, subumbonate on drying; internal bristles chaffy-vesicular, abundant; male flowers ostiolar, in 2-3 rings, sessile; tepals 1-2, saccate-lanceolate, free or jointed; gall flowers sessile or shortly stalked; female flowers sessile; tepals 3-4, reddish-brown, lanceolate or spathulate, free to almost wholly gamophyllous; ovary superior, sessile to shortly stalked, dark red. Syconium 5-8 mm across, white, globose. |