Shrubs or trees, 2-5 m tall, deciduous. Bark grayish brown. Branchlets reddish brown; internodes short. Stipules lanceolate, ca. 1 cm. Petiole red, 1.5-6 cm; leaf blade lyrate, elliptic, or elliptic-lanceolate, 10-18 × 2-7 cm, abaxially with small cystoliths, adaxially scabrous, base rounded to shallowly cordate, margin entire or slightly undulate, apex acuminate to caudate; basal lateral veins short, secondary veins red, 6-15 on each side of midvein. Figs axillary on short branchlets, paired, occasionally solitary, purplish black when mature, globose to conic-globose, 6-10 mm in diam., smooth, apical pore navel-like, sessile; involucral bracts ovate. Male flowers: scattered; calyx lobes 4 or 5, spatulate; stamens 2 or 3. Gall flowers: calyx lobes 5 or 6; ovary smooth; style short. Female flowers: calyx lobes 4 or 5; ovary enclosed by calyx lobes; style lateral; stigma brushlike, pubescent. Achenes smooth. Fl. Apr-May, fr. May-Jul.
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A fig. It is a shrub or tree. It grows 2-5 m tall. It loses its leaves during the year. The bark is greyish brown. The small branches are reddish brown. The leafy growth at the base of the leaves is sword shaped and 1 cm long. The leaf stalk is 1.5-6 cm long. The leaf blade is oval or sword shaped and 10-18 cm long by 2-7 cm wide. The base is rounded and it can taper to the tip. The secondary veins are red and there are 6-15 on each side of the main vein. The figs are paired in the axils of short branches. They are purplish black when mature. They are round or cone shaped and without stalks. They are 0.6-1 cm across.
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