Tree up to 10 m tall, much branched. Leafy twigs 3-10(-15) mm thick, brown hirsute, conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules; internodes solid (or partly hollow). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong or to (sub)ovate, 8-32 by 3-20 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin denticulate; upper surface pale brown to whitish hispid, scabrous, lower surface brown hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the (main) basal pair up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, these and the lower other lateral veins usually branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins; petiole (1.5-)4-15(-20) cm long, often varying considerably in length on the same twig, brown hirsute, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, (1-)1.5-4.5 cm long, densely white appressed-puberulous, usually to brown strigose, mainly on the midrib, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, or also cauliflorous, on up to 5 cm long leafless branches with short internodes, (sub)sessile or up to 1 cm long pedicellate; peduncular bracts 2-4, scattered, up to 8 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, dark brown hirsute to subsetose to white or brown hispidulous, the rigid hairs with a swollen base, with numerous to few lateral bracts, being subovate and 5-20 mm long, up to 7 mm wide, stiff coriaceous, and white appressed-puberulous to brown strigose, if long and numerous covering the fig receptacle entirely, if short and sparse, then not so, red at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of up to 8 mm long apical bracts, pointing upwards; internal hairs absent or sparse. Tepals dark red, glabrous. Styles glabrous; stigma conspicuously papillate.
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