Trees to 10 m. Branchlets 3-4 mm thick, sporadically white or reddish brown pubescent. Stipules lanceolate, 7-12 mm, adaxially densely covered with short pubescence, caducous. Petiole 0.8-1.5 cm, gray pubescent; leaf blade elliptic to narrowly elliptic, 9-23 × 4-9 cm, papery, glabrous except midvein abaxially with reddish brown short pubescence, base blunt, rounded, or broadly cuneate, margin entire or apically with a few teeth, apex acuminate to acute; reticulate veins abaxially dense and prominent. Male inflorescences axillary, solitary, obovoid-oblong, 1.8-2.3 × 0.4-0.7 cm, densely covered with short grayish white pubescence; peduncle 7-10 mm, densely covered with short gray pubescence; bracts shield-shaped. Female inflorescences capitate, irregularly furrowed and papillate. Male flowers: calyx 2-lobed; stamen glabrous; filament flat; anther globose. Female flowers: calyx tubular with 2 or 3 apical lobes; style exserted. Fruiting syncarp red when dry, globose or lobed, 3-5 cm in diam., fleshy, shortly pubescent; peduncle 3.5-4 cm, pubescent. Drupes ellipsoid, 1-1.3 cm in diam. Fl. spring to summer.
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A small or medium sized tree. It grows to 10-15 m tall. The trunk is 10-30 cm across. The small branches are 3-4 mm thick. The leaf stalk is 0.8-1.5 cm long. It has grey hairs. The leaf blade is narrow and oval and 9-23 cm long by 4-9 cm wide. It is papery. The base is rounded and it tapers to the tip. The flowers are of separate sexes on the one tree. The male flowers occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are 1.8-2.3 cm long by 0.5-0.7 cm wide. They have dense greyish white hairs. The fruit is green when young and becomes yellow when ripe. It is 5-6 cm long. Seeds are like Jackfruit seeds. They are 1-1.3 cm across.
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