• Scientific Name: Ficus tikoua Bureau
• Ref: J. Bot. (Morot). 2: 214. 1888.
• Synonyms: Ficus bonatii H. Léveillé;
  F. nigrescens King.
• Chinese Common Name: 地果 di guo
• Family: Moraceae
• Genus: Ficus
• Distribution: Wastelands, grassy banks, rock crevices; 800-1400 m. S Gansu, Guangxi, Guizhou, Hubei, Hunan, S Shaanxi, Sichuan, SE Xizang, Yunnan [NE India, Laos, N Vietnam].
• Type: Yunnan (云南): lacum Lon Kong [Lugu Hu] (泸沽湖), 1887-05-14, J.M. Delavay 2666(Holotype: P). Habitat in collium saxosorum latere septentrionem simul et orientem spectante, supra lacum Lon Kong provinciae Yunnanensis imperii Sinarum, ubi medio mense Maio flores et fructus immaturos gerentem speciem legebat cl. Delavay.

 Woody vines, prostrate, 0.3-0.4 m tall. Young branchlets occasionally straight, with long and thin adventitious roots, nodes enlarged. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 5 mm, pubescent. Petiole 1-2(-6) cm; leaf blade obovate-elliptic, 2-8 × 1.5-4 cm, thickly papery, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin shallowly toothed, apex acute; basal lateral veins short; secondary veins 3 or 4 on each side of midvein, abaxially with fine hairs among veins, adaxially with short spinose hairs. Figs axillary on procumbent stem, paired or clustered usually at least partly underground, dark red when mature, globose to ovoid, 1-2 cm in diam., surface with rounded tubercles, basally attenuated into a short stalk, sessile; involucral bracts thin. Male flowers: near apical pore; calyx lobes 2-6; stamens 1-3. Female flowers: shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes absent; ovary covered by a sticky membrane; style persistent, lateral, long; stigma 2-lobed. Achenes ovoid-globose, tuberculate. Fl. May-Jun, fr. Jul.(Flora of China)