Tree up to 25 m tall; latex white or yellowish(-cream). Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, pale to dark brown villous to hirsute to subtomentose; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged (to subdistichous); lamina (broadly) elliptic to ovate to subobovate to subpandurate or to oblong, (3-)10-23 by (1-)5-15 cm, symmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute (or to subcaudate), base cordate to cuneate, margin entire; upper surface sparsely brownish villous and glabrescent or glabrous, smooth, lower surface pale to dark brown villous to subsericeous to hirsute to hirtellous on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins (4-)6-10(-11) pairs, often furcate far from the margin, the basal pair ± distinct or not, tertiary venation scalariform (with more than 5 intercostals), often ± prominent; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, ± conspicuous; petiole 1-7 cm long, pale to dark brown (sub)villous to (sub)hirsute to hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm long, strigose to subhirsute, towards the margin minutely puberulous or glabrous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary, in pairs or up to 7 together on short spurs, or also or only (?) cauliflorous on clusters of up to 3 cm long leafless branchlets on the trunk (and main branches?), with a peduncle up to 1.5(-2) cm long or (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3(-5), usually verticillate, sometimes ± scattered, 1-3.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to subpyriform to ovoid or to depressed-globose, (0.5-)0.8-2.2 cm diam. when dry, (1-)1.5-2.5 cm diam. when fresh, pale to dark brown short-villous to subtomentose to hirtellous, often glabrescent, only the lateral bracts appressed-puberulous or glabrous, with several lateral bracts, yellowish at maturity, apex ± convex to flat or ± concave, ostiole 2-4 mm diam., ± umbonate; internal bristles whitish or yellowish. Staminate flowers sometimes with pistillodes.
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Tree or shrub to 15 m high, sometimes buttressed, with low spreading branches often knobbly. Upper branchlets villous. Leaves alternate; lamina elliptic to ovate, 9.5–18 cm long, 4.5–9 cm wide, narrowed to cordate at base, entire margin (juvenile leaves often toothed), acute to shortly acuminate at apex, glabrous or with hairs on midrib above, villous below; 2 flat glands on the underside of the leaf blade at the very base; lateral veins 9–11 pairs; petiole (1–) 2–4 cm long, woolly, soon glabrous; stipules c. 1–2 cm long, hairy outside. Figs axillary, often cauliflorous or ramiflorous, obovoid to globular, 1.3–1.5 cm long, (1–) 1.2–1.6 cm wide diam., green, cream or yellow, villous; ostiolar bracts forming a small protuberance; basal bracts to 2 mm long; peduncle 3–12 mm long. Male flowers: tepals 3. Female flowers with unequal tepals.
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