大明山榕 da ming shan rong

Shrubs, ca. 2 m tall. Branchlets sparsely pubescent. Stipules red, lanceolate, ca. 1 cm, glabrous. Petiole 1.5-5 cm; leaf blade ovate-elliptic, 9-22 × 4-8 cm, subglabrous, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex acuminate to caudate with a 1.5-2.5 cm cauda; basal lateral veins 2, short, and axil of veins with 2 red glands, secondary veins 4-9 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, paired or solitary, red when mature, ± globose to ellipsoid, 1-1.5 cm in diam., subglabrous, apical pore navel-like; peduncle ca. 1 cm; involucral bracts ovate-triangular. Male flowers: near apical pore, pedicellate; calyx lobes 4, ovate-lanceolate; stamens 2. Gall flowers: shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; ovary globose; style lateral, short; stigma funnelform.

* Limestone areas; ca. 2200 m. NE Guangxi (Daming Shan), Hunan.