Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-8 mm thick, white hirtellous (to puberulous), with nodal waxy glands, hollow; periderm sooner or later flaking off, often starting below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged to subopposite or on ultimate twigs distichous; lamina (broadly) elliptic to obovate, (7-)12-26(-35) by (4.5-)7-15(-21) cm, ± asymmetric to almost symmetric, chartaceous, apex shortly acuminate (to rounded), base cordate to obtuse, margin denticulate (to subentire); upper surface hirtellous to hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface whitish to brownish hirtellous on the veins, smooth, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins 6-10(-12) pairs, often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent; waxy glands in the axils of lateral veins and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)2-6(-11) cm long, hirtellous, the epidermis sooner or later flaking off; stipules 1-3 cm long, white to brown hirtellous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous (or axillary) mostly in clusters on stout up to 30 cm long branchlets, on the trunk and the main branches; peduncle 0.5-2(-3) cm long (or subsessile); basal bracts 3, (sub)verticillate or ± scattered, 2-6 mm long, stiff, often lanceolate; receptacle subglobose to pyriform to obovoid, (1.5-)2-4 cm diam. when dry, 3-6 cm diam. when fresh, sometimes shortly stipitate, sparsely to densely whitish to brownish puberulous, without lateral bracts, orange to reddish or brownish at maturity, apex ± concave to convex, ostiole 4-6 mm diam., surrounded by 5 or 6 or a rosette of erect apical bracts; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brownish.
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A fig. It is a tree. It grows 15 m tall. The leaves are arranged in spirals. It has oval leaves with a tail. They are 10-36 cm long by 6-21 cm wide. They are wedge shaped at the base. The figs are slightly flattened. They are 3-6 cm across. They occur in rounded clusters. These can be on the trunk or in the axils of leaves. They turn yellow-brown as they ripen.
A tropical plant. It grows in primary and secondary mountain forests. It grows between 1,000-2,400 m above sea level. It is often along streams.
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Locally common in primary or secondary montane forest, often along the sides of streams; at elevations from 1,000-2,400 metres.
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