Shrub or tree up to 6(-13) m. Leafy twigs 2-7 mm thick, brown puberulous to hispidulous (to hirtellous or to glabrous), sometimes with pairs of (inconspicuous) waxy glands at the bases of the petioles; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate to linear-lanceolate (4-)6-21(-30) by (1.5-)4-10 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse (to subtruncate), margin dent(icul)ate; upper surface (rather) sparsely hispidulous to strigillose, on the midrib to brown puberulous, scabrous, lower surface sparsely to densely brown hirtellous to subhispid to hispidulous to puberulous on the veins, ± scabrous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4-7 (in narrow leaves-12) pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3 (in narrow leaves up to 1/8) the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation loosely scalariform (to almost reticulate); waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-3.5 cm long, sparsely to densely puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.4-1.7 cm long, (dark) brown (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, c. 2 mm long, brown appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 0.8-1.5 cm diam. when dry, (rather) sparsely brown(ish) appressed-puberulous to hispidulous, yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., ± prominent, the outer ostiolar bracts densely brown strigillose, often erect; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.
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