Ficus L.

Flowers attached to the inner wall of the invaginated floral axis (fig or syconium) Ficus

Shrub or tree, sometimes epiphytic and strangling in early stages

Leaves smooth on the upper surface. Aerial shoots present. Epiphytes or on rocks in early stages (“Strangler Figs”)

Leaves green and glabrous on both surfaces

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Mature figs solitary on peduncles 4–6 mm long, globular 25–30 mm diam. Leaves ovate to oblong-elliptic, 7–14 cm long, thinly coriaceous, ± deciduous; lateral veins rather distant with a few short ones in between; reticulations rather conspicuous; petioles 20–50 mm long, jointed at apex. Tree. Coast and adjacent plateaus. RF; rocky places. Deciduous Fig Ficus superbahenneana

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Mature figs sessile or shortly stalked, mostly in pairs, globular, 6–10 mm diam.