Tree up to 10 m. Leafy twigs 2-8 mm thick, pale brown to whitish hirtellous, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with sparse shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged or (sub)opposite; lamina oblong, 15-35 by 6-12.5 cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acute to subacuminate, base cuneate to subcordate, margin dentate to denticulate; upper surface strig(ill)ose and hirtellous on the midrib, scabrous, lower surface hirtellous to puberulous on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, some or most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, basal pair (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and also in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-9 cm long, whitish to pale brown hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.8-1.2 cm long, whitish to brownish strig(ill)ose to subsericeous to subhirsute, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on unbranched or branched leafless with up to 60 cm long branchlets, with up to 6 cm long internodes, but on the branches the internodes very short, stipules caducous; peduncle 0.5-2 cm long; basal bracts, verticillate or ± scattered, c. 2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to subpyriform to depressed-globose, 1.5-2.8 cm diam. when dry, up to 4 cm diam. when fresh, often up to c. 0.5 cm long stipitate, rather densely puberulous, with some lateral bracts, hardly ribbed, yellowish at maturity, apex slightly convex to concave, ostiole 3-4 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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