Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, sparsely hispidulous to puberulous, often ± scabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate (to oblanceolate), 8-20(-33) by 3.5-9(-13) cm, subcoriaceous (to coriaceous), apex acuminate to subcaudate, base obtuse to rounded (to truncate), margin entire; upper surface appressed-puberulous on the midrib, smooth (or scabridulous), lower surface (rather) sparsely appressed-(to patent-)puberulous on the midrib and usually also the lateral veins or subglabrous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair running parallel and close to the margin, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation loosely (sub)scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 1-5(-11) cm long, hispidulous to puberulous, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules 0.4-0.8 cm long, yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.8(-1.2) cm long; basal bracts 3, 1-2 mm long, appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to ellipsoid, 1.2-1.5 cm diam. when dry, sometimes up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, rather sparsely puberulous, orange at maturity, apex flat to convex, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., slightly prominent to flat; internal hairs abundant.
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