KEY TO THE SECTIONS

1Trees or shrubs without aerial adventious roots and with intermittent growth with the proximal internodes of branches long and the proximal ones (very) short; leafy twigs often hollow; waxy glands usually bilateral in the axils of the basal lateral veins (or on the midrib and then rarely fused); figs usually with internal hairs
1'Climbers or hemi-epiphytes (or sometimes free-standing treelets or shrubs) with aerial adventitious roots and without intermittent growth nor the internodes of branches clearly different in length; leafy twigs solid; waxy glands often unilateral in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; figs often without internal hairs or these sparse and short