Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, whitish patent-puberulous to subglabrous, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous or (partly) (sub)opposite; lamina elliptic to oblong, 7-25 by 4-16 cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base subcordate to rounded (or to subcuneate), margin ± irregularly (and faintly) dentate, usually slightly revolute (towards the base); upper surface (sub)glabrous or sparsely puberulous (on the midrib) or hispidulous, smooth or scabrous, lower surface patent-puberulous to subhispidulous on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-8(-9) pairs, most or some of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-6(-8) cm long, patent-puberulous to subglabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.8-2(-2.8) cm long, sparsely to rather densely appressed-puberulous to strigillose (or subglabrous), caducous. Figs cauliflorous on woody tubercles or on up to 4(-10) cm long branched branchlets, on the older wood down to the trunk; peduncle (0.4-)1-2.5 cm long, densely puberulous; basal bracts 3, (usually) verticillate, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle subglobose to ± depressed-globose, 1.2-2 cm diam. when dry, up to 3 cm diam. when fresh, mostly 0.1-0.8 cm long stipitate, ± densely puberulous, without lateral bracts, yellowish at maturity, apex ± convex to concave, ostiole c. 3 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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