Tree up to 6 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-6 cm thick, brown setose-hirtellous to hirsute, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal glands; internodes solid with ample pith or hollow; periderm flaking off below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to obovate to subcordiform or to subpandurate, (11-)16-36 by (6-)9-22 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin denticulate; upper surface (sub)hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous to subhirsute on the veins, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, smooth, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal and other lateral veins and often smaller ones in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 2-8(-11) cm long, brown setose-hirtellous to subhirsute, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, whitish subsericeous and brown setose-strigose, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on stout unbranched up to 14 cm long branchlets with prominent scars of the fig peduncles; peduncle 1.2-1.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 3-4 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose to pyriform, 3.5-5 cm diam. when dry, brown hispidulous, without lateral bracts, with numerous weak ribs, colour at maturity unknown, apex concave, ostiole 5-8 mm diam., umbonate; internal hairs abundant, white to brownish.
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