Ficus ischnopoda - Lanceleaf Fig

Lanceleaf Fig is a shrub or a small tree 4 to 6 m tall. Bark is gray, smooth, blaze whitish. Branches are prominently marked with scars of fallen leaves, young parts velvet-hairy. Leaves are narrow lanceshaped or inverted-lanceshaped, 4-13 × 1-3 cm, hairless on both sides, base wedge-shaped, margin entire, tip tapering, lateral veins 6-15 on each either half, slender, reticulation elongate and prominent beneath. leaf-stalk 0.5-1 cm long, stipules subulate hairless. Figs arise in leaf-axils on leafy or leafless branches, usually solitary or paired, involucral bracts 3. Male flowers near apical pore, flower-stalklate, sepals or tepals 3, inverted-lanceshaped, stamens 2, anthers ovate. Gall flowers nearly stalkless sepals 4, ovary spherical, style short, lateral, stigma tubular, dilated. Female flowers on a separate receptacle, solitary, pear-shaped, constricted at the base stigma bilobed, reddish-brown, spongy when ripe. Lanceleaf Fig is found in NE India to China and Peninsular Malaysia, at altitudes of 100-2200 m.