Tree up to 8 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, whitish to slightly brownish villous to sericeous, with small nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow, up to 1 cm long; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina oblong to subobovate to oblanceolate, 14-22 by 3.5-6.5 cm, almost symmetric, chartaceous, often drying pale brown beneath, apex acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin (sub)entire; upper surface sparsely white villous on the midrib glabrescent or glabrous, smooth, lower surface white (sub)sericeous to appressed-puberulous on the veins, cystoliths only beneath, smooth; lateral veins 7-12 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent (or obscure?); petiole (1.5-)2-7 cm long, whitish (sub)villous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-2.5 cm long, whitish villous to subsericeous, caducous or subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous on up to 7 cm long branched stout branchlets on the trunk; peduncle 0.8-1.2 cm, densely brown puberulous to tomentose, the epidermis flaking off; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 3-5 mm long; receptacle turbinate to obovoid to subglobose, 1-1.3 cm diam. when dry, brown puberulous, glabrescent or glabrous, with some conspicuous (whitish) lenticels, without lateral bracts, towards the apex 5-or 6-ribbed, yellow-brown at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 or 6 raised and hairy apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, whitish to pale brown.
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