Shrub or sparingly branched tree up to 7(-13) m tall. Leafy twigs 4-8 mm thick, (dark) brown strigose (to hirsute), conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged to subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate (or to elliptic), 10-35(-45) by 5-18(-22) cm, ± symmetric or ± asymmetric, chartaceous (to subcoriaceous), apex acuminate, base rounded to cuneate (or subcordate), margin entire or denticulate (towards the apex) or subentire; upper surface sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous, smooth to scabridulous, lower surface sparsely to rather densely dark brown strigose to strigillose (to hirtellous) on the main veins or also puberulous on the smaller ones, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, the (main) basal pair up to 1/3-1/2(-2/3) the length of the lamina, these and also the lower other lateral veins usually branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, often smaller ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 1.5-12(-30) cm long, usually varying considerably in length on the same twig, dark brown strigose to strigillose, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, (1-)1.5-4.5(-5) cm long, sparsely to rather densely dark (to pale) brown strigose to strigillose or also whitish appressed-puberulous, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, or also cauliflorous, on up to 15 cm long, unbranched or sparingly branched leafless branches with short internodes, at the base of the trunk; subsessile or up to 1.5 cm long pedunculate; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 2-8(-10) mm long; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, (1-)1.5-2(-3) cm diam. when dry, 2.5-3.5(-5) cm diam. when fresh, brown hirsute to subsetose with irritant hairs with a swollen base, with some up to 5 mm long lateral bracts, red at maturity, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of apical bracts, pointing upwards; internal hairs absent or sparse. Tepals red-brown, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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