Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, yellowish strigose, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina lanceolate to oblong, (7-)15-35(-40) by (1.5-)3-11 cm, ± asymmetric (to almost symmetric), chartaceous, apex caudate (the apex of the acumen often filiform), base cuneate to subcordate (to cordate), margin entire; upper surface glabrous (also the midrib), smooth, lower surface yellowish strigose to strigillose on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 5-13 pairs (in the lower part more closely together than more upwards), none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, in the upper part of the lamina running perpendicular to the midrib; waxy glands in the axils of the upper lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, yellowish strig(ill)ose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-4 cm long, caudate and margin often inflexed, yellowish strigose to subsericeous, (sub)persistent. Figs flagelliflorous on up to 3 m long slender stolons with up to 10 cm long internodes; subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.5 cm long; basal bracts 3 and verticillate or up to 6 and subverticillate, 3-4 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, brown hirtellous, with ± inflexed lateral bracts, reddish at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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