(Life; Embryophyta (plants); Angiospermae (flowering plants); Eudicotyledons; Order: Rosales; Family: Moraceae; Genus: Ficus; Subgenus: Urostigma; Section: Malvanthera; Subsection: Malvantherae)
Pollinator: Pleistodontes nitens (Girault).
Strangler fig to 30m in wet tropical rainforest.
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