Tree up to 25 m tall, without or with buttresses up to 1 m high. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the petioles ± prominent. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, ± angular, rather densely to sparsely minutely white puberulous to glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 8-20(-33) by 3.5-9(-14) cm, often slightly asymmetric, coriaceous, apex (shortly and bluntly) acuminate, base often slightly inequilateral, cuneate to rounded (to subattenuate or to subcordate), margin entire, flat or slightly revolute; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface (very) (sparsely) appressed-puberulous to strigillose on the midrib or (sub)glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins (8-)10-14 pairs, sometimes furcate far from the margin, the basal pair slightly or not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-2.5(-5) cm long, appressed-puberulous or glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-2(-3) cm long, densely brownish to whitish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous (or subglabrous), caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, (sub)sessile or up to 0.3 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts (2 or) 3, (sub)verticillate, 2-3 mm long, persistent, densely appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose, (1-)1.5-3.5 cm diam. when dry, rather densely (to sparsely) brownish appressed-puberulous to subtomentose, sometimes with some lateral bracts, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-5 mm diam., prominent, often surrounded by apical bracts; internal hairs present (sparse and short) or absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 1 or 2.
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