Tree up to 20 m tall, sometimes with short buttresses. Leafy twigs 5-10(-15) mm thick, pale brown to yellowish velutinous; periderm flaking off below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to ovate, 16-22 by 13-16 cm, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin dent(icul)ate; upper surface densely puberulous to hirtellous, smooth, lower surface pale brown to yellowish velutinous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, basal pair up to c. 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the main basal lateral veins or also in axils of the lesser basal veins; petiole 6-9 cm long, velutinous, the epidermis persistent; stipules c. 1 cm long, subvelutinous, caducous. Figs mostly below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs, (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3, c. 4 mm long, yellowish subvelutinous; receptacle subglobose to ovoid, 2-2.5 cm diam. when dry, yellowish velutinous, orange-brown at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 7 mm diam., the outer ostiolar bracts erect; internal hairs abundant.
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