Tree up to 23 m tall, sometimes buttressed. Leafy twigs 3-5 mm thick, glabrous; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off; older twigs with prominent scars of leaves and figs. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina (broadly) elliptic to obovate to subobovate or to oblong, 9-24 by 3-15.5 cm, (almost) symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base obtuse to rounded to subcordate, margin entire; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 9-14 pairs, the basal pair slightly or not distinct, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, conspicuous; petiole (1-)2-4 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 2-4.5 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary, with a peduncle up to 1.3 cm long or subsessile; basal bracts 3, (sub)verticillate or scattered, c. 3 mm long, deflexed; receptacle (sub)globose, (1-)1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.6 cm long stipitate, glabrous, without lateral bracts, yellowish (?) at maturity, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., umbonate (or impressed?); internal hairs absent.
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A tree. It grows 23 m tall. It can have buttresses. The leaves are in spirals.
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