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Trees, 10-15 m tall. Bark grayish white. Branches without aerial roots; branchlets 5-9 mm in diam., densely yellowish brown woolly. Stipules yellowish brown, lanceolate, 2-3 cm, membranous, with thick hairs. Petiole robust; 2.5-3 cm; leaf blade narrowly elliptic to obovate-elliptic, 15-18 × 5-9 cm, leathery, glabrous or abaxially yellowish brown woolly but glabrescent, adaxially green and glabrous or sparsely shortly pubescent or densely yellowish brown long pubescent but glabrescent, base rounded, ± cordate, or ± auriculate, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex acute; basal lateral veins 2-4, secondary veins 8-11 on each side of midvein, tertiary veins reticulate. Figs axillary on leafy branchlets, paired, reddish orange to red and with scattered white spots, oblong, pillow-shaped, or conic-ellipsoid, 1.5-2.5 × 1-1.5(-2) cm, glabrous or densely covered with brownish yellow long hairs, inside with few or no bristles, apical pore closed by 3 or 4 umbonate bracts, not forming flat disk, subsessile; involucral bracts orbicular to ovate-lanceolate, margin ciliate. Male, gall, and female flowers within same fig. Male flowers: long-pedicellate; calyx lobes 3, broadly ovate; stamen 1; filament short and thick; anther narrowly ellipsoid. Gall flowers: pedicellate; sepals connate, apically 3-or 4-lobed; ovary ± globose. Female flowers: calyx lobes 3, white, broadly lanceolate. Achenes ± globose, tuberculate. Fl. early summer.
A fig. It is a small to medium sized tree. It grows 10-15 m high. It has a spreading bushy crown. It has strangling roots but not aerial roots. There are prop roots near the base. The trunk is short and irregular. The bark is grey and smooth. The young shoots have dense rusty coloured hairs. The leaf stalk is 2.5-3 cm long. The leaves are simple and 8-18 cm long by 4-9 cm wide. They are oval but narrow abruptly at each end. They are dark green and leathery. Underneath they are more yellowish brown. Young leaves have rusty hairs while mature leaves are smooth. The fig or receptacle is 1.5-2 cm across. They are round and in the axils of leaves on young shoots. They occur either singly or in pairs. They ripen from orange to dark red. They are edible. There are some varieties described based on the hairiness of the leaves.
Spreading strangler to 20 (–30) m high, glabrous except branchlet apex (new growth rusty-hairy). Leaves: lamina elliptic-oblong to pentagonal, (6–) 10–20 (–32) cm long, (3–) 4–8 (–13) cm wide, rounded, slightly cordate at base, entire margin, bluntly acuminate or with tip to 7 mm long at apex; lateral veins 8–10 pairs, distant, prominent; petiole 1.5–3 cm long; stipules to 0.8–4.5 cm long, often rusty brown-hairy, soon glabrous. Figs paired, sessile, glabrous, ellipsoid to obloid, 1–3 cm long, 1.5–2.3 cm wide, maturing orange to red, purple then black; ostiole slightly umbonate; basal bracts small, concealed under fig. Male flowers pedicellate; tepals 3; stamen 1; bracts numerous; internal bristles absent. Female flowers usually sessile; stigma simple, dilated at base.
