Ficus cordata subsp. salicifolia (Vahl) C. C. Berg

salicifolia: leaves like a willow (Salix sp.)

Trees or shrubs, terrestrial, epilithic (rock splitting), monoecious (both sexes on same plant), sap milky. Figs in pairs, or more together, in leaf axils or just below the leaves; basal bracts 3, lateral bracts absent, ostiole circular, with 3 ostiolar bracts visible (Genus Ficus, Subgenus Urostigma).
Leaf with basal pair of veins more or less closely following the leaf margin; the main lateral veins forking near the leaf margin (compare Ficus ingens). Leaf lamina(3)5(8) times as long as the petiole. Figs pedunculate.

Throughout eastern Africa from Botswana and South Africa to Egypt and Yemen, Socotra, with an outlier population in Algeria. A few records in south-eastern Zambia.