Tree up to 13 m tall. Leafy twigs 6-10(-12) mm thick, ± densely minutely puberulous, with pairs of waxy glands at the bases of the petioles, hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to ovate, (11-)28-45 by (7-)16-28 cm, chartaceous (brittle when dry), apex shortly acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface hirtellous to subhirsute to substrigose, ± scabrous, lower surface densely minutely white puberulous on the veins and in the areoles, on the veins also brown subhirsute to hirtellous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 5-7 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins and in those of the other lateral veins; petiole (3-)6-18 cm long, densely minutely puberulous and also sparsely subhirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-6 cm long, finely white sericeous on the keel and also with longer stiff brown hairs, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, 0.6-1 cm long, densely minutely appressed-puberulous, caducous; receptacle ovoid to subglobose, 2-3 cm diam. when dry, densely brown hirsute, red at maturity, apex convex to protracted, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., surrounded by 5 cushion-shaped processes; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.
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