Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, brown hirsute, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate, (13-)20-50 by (4.5-)9-17 cm, asymmetric (to nearly symmetric), chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate at the narrow side, cordate at the broad side, but lobe not covering the petiole, margin (towards the apex) denticulate to dentate; upper surface strigose, ± scabrous, on the midrib hirtellous, lower surface brown(ish) hirsute, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (6-)7-12 pairs, some or most of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation (rather loosely) scalariform, in the upper part of the lamina reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of the lateral veins, sometimes also a single large one in the axil of the basal lateral vein at the broad side of the lamina; petiole 0.5-2(-3) cm long, brown hirsute, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-4 cm long, white appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, partly (on the keel) brown strigose to subhirsute, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous on up to 8 m long, sparsely branched stolons with up to 3.5 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3(-7), verticillate (or not), c. 3 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose to turbinate, 1.2-1.6 cm diam. when dry, brown hirtellous, (faintly) ribbed towards the ostiole, with few short lateral bracts, at maturity yellow, apex ± concave; ostiole c. 2 mm diam., flat; internal hairs absent.
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