Tree up to 8 m. Leafy twigs 3-5 mm thick, whitish to pale brown (sub)hirsute to subvillous, with hairs often ± retrorse, without nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent; scars of leaves conspicuous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subobovate to oblong, (5-)10-22(-33) by (2.5-)4-8(-14) cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, margin denticulate towards the apex; upper surface whitish substrigose, smooth, lower surface rather densely to sparsely whitish to brown villous on the (main) veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 10-17 pairs, some or most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and furcations of lateral veins; petiole (1-)5-13 cm long, whitish (sub)hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, brownish subhirsute to strigose on (and along) the keel or also whitish appressed-puberulous, subpersistent (or caducous). Figs cauliflorous on stout branched up to 40 cm long branchlets with short internodes, prominent scars, and up to 0.5 cm long subpersistent stipules, on the base of the trunk (and ending in the soil); peduncle 0.2-0.5 cm long; basal bracts, verticillate, 2-5 mm long; receptacle pyriform to obovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, up to 5 cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, without lateral bracts, ribbed, distinctly so at the apex of the receptacle, yellow or brown at maturity, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole 4-5 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant white or brownish; wall thick.
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