Shrub or tree up to 7 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, brownish hirsute to hirtellous, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with sparse shorter and softer white hairs, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 40-100 by 15-35 cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate, the larger lobe often covering the petiole, margin denticulate; upper surface strigose to subhispid, ± scabrous, lower surface brownish hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-20(-24) pairs, some or most of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, partly running perpendicular to the midrib; waxy glands in the axils of lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 12.5 cm long, brownish hirsute to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 3-7 cm long, whitish puberulous and brown strigose to subsericeous, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous on stolons with up to 4 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.3-1.3 cm long; basal bracts 3, ± scattered, 3-6 mm long; receptacle subpyriform, 1-3 cm diam. when dry, 0.4-0.8 cm long stipitate, brown hirtellous, with numerous lateral bracts, purplish at maturity, apex flat to slightly concave; ostiole c. 10 mm diam., surrounded by several, erect to incurved apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a shrub or small tree. It grows 7 m tall. The twigs have white hairs. The stipules are 3-7 cm long. The young leaves are pink. The leaves are 15-50 cm long by 6-15 cm wide. They are unequal at the bottom. They are heart shaped on the broad side. The fruit develop on 10 cm long runners that develop from the base of the trunk and form roots. They are 4-5 cm across.
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