Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brown(ish) to whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, sometimes with small nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow or solid with ample pith; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous, sometimes subopposite; lamina (ob)lanceolate to subobovate to oblong, 3-16(-25) by (0.5-)2-6(-9.5) cm, slightly to distinctly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin denticulate (at least) towards the apex; upper surface strigillose on the whole surface or only the midrib or subglabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely to rather densely brown(ish) or whitish strigillose on the (main) veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-10(-12) pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, the basal ones weakly developed, tertiary venation scalariform (to subreticulate); waxy glands absent or, if present, then in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.4-1.2(-2) cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.4-1.5 cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, caducous or subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous, mostly on (dense) clusters of rather slender to stout leafless branchlets up to 5 cm long on the trunk (and main branches), those on the base of the trunk becoming up to 3 m long stolons, sometimes on woody tubercles (very short branched leafless branchlets); peduncle 0.2-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose to subpyriform to (sub)ovoid, dry 0.7-1.3 cm diam. when dry, 1-2(-2.5) cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, non-stipitate (or up to 0.2 cm long stipitate), (faintly) ribbed, without lateral bracts, yellow or red-brown at maturity, apex flat to concave, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 (or 6) erect apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a small erect shrub or small tree. It can be 5-15 m tall. The trunk can be 10 cm across. The leaves are a dark shiny green above and paler underneath. The figs are in clusters on the roots that are near the soil surface and on the stems and hanging branches. The figs or fruit are yellow-green to brown. They are a flattened round shape and 2 cm across.
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