Ficus pumila L.

Evergreen, monoecious, scandent shrub becoming ± erect at flowering. Young stems moderately to densely hairy, becoming glabrous. Lvs glabrous above, finely hairy below when young but becoming ± glabrous, not lobed, entire, ovate to elliptic, cordate and often asymmetric at base, obtuse to acute, 1.5–3–(4) cm long on young scandent shoots, up to 12 cm long on the more erect flowering shoots; veins very prominently raised below; petiole < blade; stipules 2 per node, densely hairy, triangular, caducous. Infl. hairy, pyriform to subglobose, green, shortly pedunculate. Syncarp purplish pink, 2–8 cm long; achenes not seen.

[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]