Ficus maxima
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Tree up to 25 m tall. Branchlets 2-7.5 mm thick, glabrous, sometimes minutely puberulous. Stipules 1.5-3.5 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous, caducous; petiole 1-6 cm long, glabrous, periderm peeling off; blade subcoriaceous to chartaceous, elliptic to narrowly elliptic or sometimes narrowly obovate, (8-)12-17 x (4-)7.5-10.5 cm, apex acuminate to acute, base angustate to broadly acute, margin entire, smooth and glabrous above, scabrous to scabridulous or almost smooth, on the veins hispidulous to puberulous to almost glabrous beneath; secondary veins 8-15 pairs. Figs solitary in the leaf axils, (sub)globose, 0.8-1.8 cm in diam., puberulous to hirtellous, often scabrous, at maturity greenish; peduncle 0.6-2.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, ca. 1.5 mm long; ostiole ca. 1.5 mm in diam., plane.