Tree up to 13 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, brown hirsute to subvillous, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, (6-)10-38 by (2-)3-9 cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex caudate, the acumen denticulate, base cuneate to cordate on the narrow side, cordate-auriculate on the broad side, margin obscurely denticulate to subentire, upper surface puberulous to hirtellous on the midrib, smooth (or ± scabrous), lower surface brown (sub)hirsute on the veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-10 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, partly running perpendicular to the midrib; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, white puberulous and brown hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-4 cm long, caudate, white puberulous and brown hirsute, subpersistent. Figs flagelliflorous on up to 3 m (or more) long stolons with up to c. 10 cm long internodes; peduncle up to 0.5 cm long or subsessile; basal bracts 3-5, ± scattered, gradually passing into the lateral bracts, 3-5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, when dry 1.5-2 cm diam., brown hirsute to hirtellous, with numerous lateral bracts, up to 10 mm long, the upper ones ± incurved, red-purple at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 5-6 mm diam., flat to slightly prominent, surrounded by erect apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a small tree. It grows 17 m tall. The leaves are alternate and simple. They are hairy underneath. The base of the leaves is unequal. There are teeth along the edge. The fruit are dark red irregular shaped. They are crusty fruit growing on the stem. These creeping stems near the ground can be several metres long. The fruit are 1.5 cm across.
An understorey tree, mainly in disturbed keranga, mixed dipterocarp, sub-montane and regrowth forests at elevations up to 1,200 metres. Usually along rivers and streams and on hillsides with sandy soils.
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A tropical plant. It grows in secondary forest up to 1,200 m above sea level. They are usually along streams. They can grow on sandy soils. It grows in Borneo.
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