Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 2.5-6 mm thick, dark brown hirsute to hirtellous, the longer hairs intermixed with (very) sparse white short and softer hairs, with nodal waxy glands; usually with some ± conspicuous lenticels just below the scar of the stipules; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous (to subopposite); lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate, 9-29 by 3.5-12 cm, ± asymmetric to almost symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate to subcordate to rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface whitish hirtellous to strigose to hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, smooth (or scabridulous), cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 4-9 pairs, mostly branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 1-5 cm long, brown hirsute to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.7-)1-2(-3) cm long, white puberulous and along the keel brown strigose to hirtellous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on branched rather stout up to 40 cm long branchlets on the trunk and/or on up to 4 m long stolons with up to 6 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.5-2.3 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate (or ± scattered), 3-6 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to pyriform, (1-)1.5-3 cm diam. when dry, 4-5 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or sometimes up to 2.5 cm long stipitate, densely (dark) brown hirtellous to subvelutinous to puberulous, glabrescent and the epidermis flaking off, lenticellate, often (faintly) ribbed, without lateral bracts, brown to purple-red at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole 5-9 mm diam., surrounded by 5 stiff apical bracts, prominent; internal hairs abundant, brown.
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A fig. It is a tree. It grows 10 m tall. The leaves are in spirals.
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