Linus Gokusing collecting leaves from a Ficus geocharis tree at Kipandi 730m asl in the Crocker Range.

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Base of Ficus geocharis tree growing on a hill slope at Kipandi in the Crocker Range. Quentin Phillipps to show the size of the buttresses.
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Ficus geocharis  leaves and fig fruit. The fruit grow on long root like stolons at ground level.
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Ficus geocharis is most common in wet hill forest throughout Borneo. The fig fruit in Sabah and Brunei are smooth (glaborous). Further south they may be covered with hairs.
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Ficus geocharis. Note that the leaves grow in a flat plane but not opposite each other (distichous)

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Ficus geocharis. Note the distinctive “ear” or auricle at the base of each leaf. Whilst a number of Bornean figs have “auricles” on their leaves Ficus geocharis is the only Earth Fig with an auricle. The rest are all  lianas or climbers in Section :Sycidium