Free-growing tree, to 40 (50) m tall; trunk buttressed, ca 1 m diam, light gray, somewhat smooth; stems and leaves glabrous; outer bark planar with weak fissures and rows of lenticels; inner bark tan, in inverted V-shaped bands; sap copious, milky. Petioles 1-2.5 cm long; stipules linear, 3-5 cm long, caducous; blades elliptic to oblong-elliptic, acuminate, acute to obtuse at base, 6-11 cm long and 2.5-4 cm wide (juveniles with blades to 28 cm long and 5 cm wide), the major lateral veins in 15-30 pairs, mostly less than 4 mm apart, forming obscure collecting vein. Figs solitary, globose, to 1.8 cm diam, green at maturity, often purplish at apex, mottled with irregular, lighter green, weakly pustular areas; peduncles 3-11 mm long; ostioles narrowly tubular, to 3 mm long; basal bracts 3, free, ca 1 mm long. Croat 15060. Common, especially in the younger forest. Seedlings require considerable light to survive, which explains their greater abundance in the younger forest. Figs are distributed by bats. Mexico (Chiapas) to Colombia and Venezuela; sea level to 1,600 but usually at 500 to 1,200 m. In Panama, known from tropical moist forest on BCI and from premontane wet forest in Chiriqui (Boquete).