Shrub or tree up to 10(-15) m tall. Leafy twigs 2-5(-8) mm thick, brown hirtellous or puberulous to hirtellous and (setose-)hirsute; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate (to subpandurate or to lanceolate), sometimes 3-lobed, (5-)7-20(-30) by (2-)4-12(-25) cm, chartaceous, apex acuminate (to subacute), base obtuse to subcuneate or to subcordate, margin dent(icul)ate; upper surface hispidulous to hirtellous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous on the veins, sometimes to subvelutinous or partly hispidulous or hirsute; cystoliths absent; lateral veins (4-)5-7(-12) pairs, basal pair running almost parallel to the margin, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, often not or only faintly branched, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform to almost reticulate; waxy glands if present inconspicuous and in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-5(-16) cm long, hirtellous to hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, brownish substrigose to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, 2-3.5 mm long, appressed-puberulous to strigillose; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid (to ovoid), 1-1.2(-1.8) cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2.2 cm diam. when fresh, hirtellous to hirsute to subhispidulous, red at maturity, apex convex to slightly protracted, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs abundant.
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