Tree up to 25 m tall. Leafy twigs (4-)6-10 mm, brownish hirtellous, with waxy glands in pairs at the bases of the petioles, solid; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to subrotundate (or ovate, when juvenile 3-7-lobed to-fid), 9-27 by 8.5-25 cm (when juvenile up to 40 by 40 cm), chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base cordate to subtruncate to rounded, margin serrate-denticulate; upper surface hirtellous, scabridulous, lower surface hirtellous to subvelutinous on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins mostly branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent on the lamina; petiole 3.5-10 (when juvenile-30) cm long, densely hirtellous (to subvelutinous), the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.8-)1.5-2.5(-3) cm long, brown hirtellous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary and below the leaves on previous season’s growth, solitary (or in pairs?), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, appressed-puberulous; receptacle ovoid to ellipsoid to subglobose, (1.3-)1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, 2.3-3 cm diam. when fresh, densely brown puberulous (to subvelutinous), colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to slightly protracted, ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., flat to ± prominent; internal hairs abundant, yellow.
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