Tree to 30 m high, often strangling, sometimes buttressed. Leaves alternate; lamina broadly obovate, rarely broadly elliptic or ovate, (7.6–) 10–22 cm long, 5–15.4 cm wide, cuneate to subrotund at base, entire margin, bluntly acuminate at apex, thick and coriaceous, glabrous or with a few hairs at base; primary lateral veins 9–12 pairs; petiole 4–14 cm long, often flattened, glabrous; stipules to 12 (–20) cm long, lightly pubescent. Figs axillary, ellipsoid to cylindric, often 3-angular, 4–7 cm long, 1.3–3.2 cm diam., orange, red, mottled reddish brown or purplish, pubescent, the apex beaked and to 7 mm long; ostiole horn-like, to 2 cm long; basal bracts 3, c. 1 cm long and wide; peduncle 0.7–1.7 cm long, 3-angled, dilated at apex forming with bracts a cupule at base of fig. Male and female flowers dispersed, pedicellate; tepals 4. See also Dixon (2003: 135–137).
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A fig. It is a tree up to 30 m high. It can grow as a strangler. The leaves are simple and 10-17 cm long. They are without hairs. The fruit is 40-70 mm long by 13-28 mm wide. They occur in clusters in the axils of leaves. The fruit have a covering of small rusty hairs. These give a velvety texture to the surface of the fruit. The fruit are edible.
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