Tree up to 33 m tall, becoming slightly buttressed, deciduous; milk sap watery. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, white to brown appressed-puberulous to strigillose or glabrous; periderm persistent; branches dark brown to purplish, scars of the stipules ± prominent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to (subobovate), 8-25 by 3.5-13 cm, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base truncate to cuneate, margin entire; upper surface appressed-puberulous on the veins or only on the midrib, smooth, lower surface appressed-puberulous to strigillose on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins (8-)10-13(-18) pairs, the basal pair not or slightly distinct from the other lateral veins, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent; petiole 2-7.5 cm long, appressed-puberulous to strigillose or glabrous, the epidermis persistent or flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.2 cm long, brown appressed-puberulous to strigillose mostly only on the keel or glabrous outside and only ciliolate, caducous. Figs below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs; peduncle (0.2-)0.5-1 cm; basal bracts 3, 2-3 mm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous or only ciliolate; receptacle ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.8-1.3 cm diam. when dry, 1.3-1.6 cm diam. when fresh, sometimes up to 0.2 cm long stipitate, sparsely to densely puberulous, ‘seed-figs’ orange-ochre to red at maturity, ‘gall-figs’ greenish at maturity and irregularly longitudinally dehiscent, apex convex or somewhat protracted, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., somewhat prominent; internal hairs abundant, yellow.
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A fig. It is a tree. The bark is brownish-grey and slightly cracked. The leaves are oval and 10-24 cm long by 4-12 cm wide. They are slightly hairy underneath. The fruit are figs in the axils of leaves. They can occur singly or in pairs.
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