Tree up to 60 m tall, hemi-epiphytic. Leafy twigs 2.5-10(-15) mm thick, angular, usually with a ring of ± conspicuous lenticels below the scars of the stipules, glabrous or white puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged (to subdistichous); lamina oblong to (broadly) elliptic to (sub)ovate, 5-30(-35) by 2.5-16 cm, (thickly) coriaceous (to subcoriaceous), apex short-(sub)acuminate to acute, base rounded to subcordate or to cuneate, sometimes shortly attenuate; upper surface glabrous (or sparsely puberulous on the midrib), lower surface glabrous (or sparsely to densely puberulous on the midrib); cystoliths on both sides (or only above); lateral veins 15-30 pairs, basal lateral veins 1-3 pairs, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5-10(-15) cm long, glabrous (or puberulous); stipules (3-)8-25(-30) cm long, glabrous or puberulous (to subsericeous), caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, often subtended by lanceolate to filiform, caducous or sometimes subpersistent bracts; sessile or 1-4(-5) cm long pedunculate, the apex sometimes clearly but mostly slightly or not dilated, long peduncles often recurved; basal bracts 3, 0.5-3 mm long, subcrescentic to semicircular or ovate, subpersistent or caducous; receptacle ellipsoid to cylindrical or to subglobose, 1-5 cm diam. and 2-10 cm long when dry, up to 1.5 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, puberulous or glabrous, red to purple at maturity, maculate, apex ± umbonate to rostrate, ostiole tri-radiate (to almost slit-shaped), surrounded by 3 equally strong or 2 strong and 1 (much) weaker, gibbous ribs; outer layer of the wall hard, crustaceous; inner (whitish) layer thick, with the fruits (partly) embedded. Anthers crescentic and dehiscent with a slit over the top of the anther or (sub)peltate and dehiscent with an equatorial slit, occasionally separate thecae, dehiscing longitudinally. Fruits partly embedded in the inner layer of the wall.
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A fig. It is a large spreading tree. It grows 13-20 m tall. It can be a strangler. The trunk can be 35 cm across. The bark is light grey and has rings of lenticels. It has large boat shaped stipules. The leaves are dark glossy green above and pale bluish green underneath. The leaves are 50 cm long by 25 cm wide. The fruit are yellowish red. They occur in pairs and are cylinder shaped with 2 ridges. The fruit are 10 cm long by 8 cm wide.
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