Tree up to 7 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-5(-7) mm thick, sparsely whitish appressed-puberulous (mostly only just below the scars of the stipules) to rather densely yellowish appressed-puberulous; periderm flaking off; branches brown to dark brown to purplish with rather prominent scars of the stipules. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong, 6-21 by 3-11 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded (to truncate), margin repand (to entire); upper surface very sparsely appressed-puberulous, lower surface sparsely appressed-puberulous to substrigose on the main veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins (4-)5-7 pairs, the basal pair slightly different from the other lateral veins, up to (1/3-)1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, mostly branched, other veins lateral sometimes branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-7 cm long, sparsely puberulous, the epidermis persistent or flaking off; stipules 0.8-1.2 cm long, whitish to yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs; peduncle 0.4-0.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, c. 2 mm long, ciliolate; receptacle subglobose to obovoid, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, sometimes up to 0.2 cm long stipitate, sparsely appressed-puberulous, finely ribbed, ‘seed-figs’ orange at maturity, ‘gall-figs’ yellowish (?) at maturity and irregularly longitudinally dehiscent, apex convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., flat, the outer ostiolar bracts ciliolate or partly appressed-puberulous; internal hairs abundant, whitish.
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