Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-4 mm thick, densely dark brown to purplish hirtellous to subhirsute; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to subobovate to lanceolate, 17-28 by 7-9.5 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base narrowly cordate to rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface brown to whitish strigillose to hirtellous, smooth to scabridulous, lower surface dark brown hirtellous on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched or other lower lateral veins ± branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent (?); petiole 1-6 cm long, varying distinctly in length on the same twig, dark brown to purplish hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.5-1 cm long, brown strigillose, subpersistent or caducous. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous, clustered on up to 2 cm long leafless branchlets with short internodes on leafy branches on the trunk or on 2-3 m long rooting stolons with long internodes (departing from the base of the trunk?); subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.4 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.4-0.6 cm diam. when dry, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when fresh, dark brown setulose (the hairs patent to appressed), with few up to 1 mm long lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by rosette of up to 1 mm long apical bracts; internal hairs sparse, white. Tepals dark red, partly connate, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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