Ficus religiosa

Trees, 15-25 m tall, d.b.h. 30-50 cm, epiphytic when young, crown wide when mature. Bark gray, smooth or longitudinally ± fissured. Branchlets grayish brown, sparsely pubescent when young. Stipules ovate, small, apex acute. Petiole slender, as long as or longer than leaf blade, articulate, leaf blade triangular-ovate, 9-17 x 8-12 cm, leathery, abaxially green, adaxially dark green and shiny, base broadly cuneate to ± cordate, margin entire or undulate, apex acute to caudate with a 2-5 cm cauda, basal lateral veins 2, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired or solitary, red when mature, globose to depressed globose, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, smooth, peduncle 4-9 mm, involucral bracts ovate. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: few, near apical pore, sessile, calyx 2- or 3-lobed, margin revolute, stamen 1, filament short. Gall flowers: pedicellate, calyx 3- or 4-lobed, ovary globose, smooth, style short, stigma enlarged, 2-lobed. Female flowers: sessile, calyx 4-lobed, broadly lanceolate, ovary globose, smooth, style thin, stigma narrow. [Flora of China Editorial Committee, 2014]