Tree up to 40 m tall, with buttresses up to 5 m high. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, densely to sparsely white puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves spirally arranged; the lamina oblong to elliptic to subovate or to ovate, (4-)10-20(-24) by (2-)4-10(-14) cm, symmetric, coriaceous to chartaceous, apex acuminate to acute, base deeply cordate to rounded, margin entire, slightly revolute; upper surface (rather) sparsely white puberulous to tomentose, mainly on the veins, or (sub)glabrous, lower surface ± densely to sparsely puberulous to subtomentose to hirtellous on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins (6-)10-14 pairs, the basal lateral veins up to 1/20 to 1/10 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, most other lateral veins branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands absent; petiole 1-6(-8.5) cm long, (often) varying in length on the same twig, sparsely to rather densely white puberulous to subtomentose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1.3 cm long, white sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs (or solitary); peduncle 0.2-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1-2 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 0-0.1 cm long stipitate, sparsely to densely white puberulous to tomentose, yellow to pink to red at maturity, apex slightly umbonate, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., prominent; internal hairs abundant, long. Tepals reddish, glabrous. Stamens 1 (or 2).
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Tree to 35 (–45) m high; bole to 20 m long, 1 m diam., with buttresses to 5 m high. Leaves alternate; lamina ovate to pentagonal, (10–) 15–19 cm long, (4.5–) 7–11 cm wide, cordate at base, entire or toothed margin, long-acuminate at apex, lightly pubescent to glabrous on upper side, densely pubescent on lower side; lateral veins 10–13 pairs, prominent; petiole 3–7 cm long, pubescent; stipules to 2 cm long, densely pubescent with whitish hairs. Figs globular to ± pyriform, 1.2–2 cm diam., yellow, orange, pink or red, pubescent; ostiole 2–3 mm diam., slightly raised; basal bracts 3, forming collar just below fig-body; peduncle to 1 cm long, pubescent. Male and female flowers interspersed, pedicellate, surrounded by abundant bristles; tepals 3 or 4.
A fig. It is a tall tree. It grows 20-30 m high and spreads 15-25 m wide. The crown is widely spreading. The trunk is long. There are buttresses at the base. The bark is grey with green blotches. Young shoots have soft white hairs. The leaves are alternate. They are 10-14 cm long by 7-10 cm wide. They are oval or heart shaped. The leaf stalks are 2.5-4 cm long. Leaves taper to the tip. The fig is 1-2 cm across. They are black and in the axils of leaves. They are covered with white hairs.
Grows in well developed lowland and upland rainforest on a variety of sites but is a characteristic component of the gallery forest on the creeks and rivers of Cape York Peninsula where appreciative, but still hungry, pigs beat distinct narrow paths from one tree to another during the fruiting season (Zich et al. 2020).
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A tropical plant. In tropical Queensland it grows from sea level to 270 m altitude. In Indonesia it grows up to 1,200 m above sea level.
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