Tree up to c. 7 m tall. Leafy twigs 6-10 mm thick, brown to yellowish strigose to subhirsute, the stiff hairs intermixed with much shorter patent white hairs, without waxy glands, hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina obovate to subpandurate, 40-50 by 20-26 cm, chartaceous (brittle when dry), apex shortly acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface hirtellous, ± scabridulous, lower surface white puberulous, on the larger veins also yellowish to brownish hirtellous to subhirsute, scabridulous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/6-1/4 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins and in those of the other lateral veins; petiole 3-10 cm long, densely minutely brownish puberulous and also brown hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-6 cm long, finely white sericeous and towards the keel also brown to yellowish subsericeous to strigose, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs (?), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, appressed-puberulous (?), persistent; receptacle ellipsoid, 1.3-1.4 cm diam. when dry, densely brown hirtellous to subhirsute, colour at maturity unknown, apex protracted, ostiole c. 3 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant, whitish.
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