Tree up to 25 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, white to brownish puberulous to whitish to dark brown hirtellous to subhirsute or whitish hispidulous to appressed-puberulous (to subglabrous), with conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate or to (sub)ovate (to subcordiform or to suborbicular), (3-)7-24 by (2-)3-12 cm, (almost) symmetric, sometimes asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate to subcordate (to truncate to rounded), margin regularly ± irregularly denticulate, sometimes revolute; upper surface puberulous to hirtellous to hispidulous to strigillose, scabrous, lower surface (dark) brown hirtellous to subhirsute or (to) whitish puberulous to hispidulous on the (main) veins, scabridulous or smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)5-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4(-1/3) the length of the lamina, these and other lower lateral veins mostly branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands largely on the midrib, below the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, sometimes also below the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.5-8(-12) cm long, varying distinctly to slightly in length on the same twig, (dark) brown hirtellous to subhirsute or whitish puberulous to hispidulous, the epidermis persistent or ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.9 cm long, sparsely (to rather densely) white appressed-puberulous to brown strigillose to subglabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, or ramiflorous to cauliflorous, on (clusters of) up to 3 cm long (tuberculate) short-shoots (down to the trunk); peduncle 0.3-1.2(-2) cm long; peduncular bracts, mostly 2 or 3, scattered, 0.5-1.5(-3) mm long; receptacle subglobose (to ellipsoid), 0.3-0.8(-1.2) cm diam. when dry, brownish to whitish puberulous to hirtellous or to hispidulous, the rigid hairs with a swollen base (or whitish subvillous), occasionally glabrous, usually with some up to 1 or up to 3 mm long lateral bracts, red-purple at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by short apical bracts ± covering the ostiole or pointing upwards; internal hairs abundant to sparse. Tepals dark red, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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A fig. It is a tree. It grows 25 m tall. The leaves are arranged in spirals. The leaves vary in length and colour. The figs are on the branches and trunk. The figs can be 8-12 mm across.
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