Laxly-branched shrub up to 2 m tall, sometimes creeping, or treelet. Leafy twigs 1-3(-4) mm thick, (minutely) whitish puberulous or also hirtellous; internodes hollow (or solid). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or (ob)lanceolate or to linear-lanceolate), (3-)8-24(-32) by (0.5-)2-10(-18) cm, symmetric to slightly asymmetric, chartaceous (to subcoriaceous), apex acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to rounded to subcordate, margin (coarsely) crenate-dentate to subentire or on young plants often irregularly pinnately lobed; upper surface (sub)glabrous or punctate (by cystoliths), smooth or ± scabrous, lower surface sparsely whitish hispidulous to strigillose on the veins, scabridulous; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 6-9(-16) pairs, the basal pair up to (1/20-)1/6-1/3 the length of the lamina, mostly unbranched, tertiary venation laxly scalariform (or subreticulate in narrow leaves); waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins or also smaller ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.5-4 (in young plants-13) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely whitish hispidulous to rather densely puberulous (sometimes also hirtellous) or glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.2-1 cm long, sparsely minutely appressed-puberulous, often slightly striate, caducous (or subpersistent at apices of leafy twigs). Figs in the leaf axils, paired or solitary, or clustered on spurs in the leaf axils and also below the leaves; peduncle (0.1-)0.2-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely puberulous to glabrous, (usually) with few c. 0.5 mm long lateral bracts, orange to red at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a low (sublobate) rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous (or hairy). Fruits (endocarp body) 1-1.5 mm long, subtetrahedral to lens-shaped, tuberculate, weakly keeled.
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A fig. It is a shrub. It grows 2 m long. The branches often lie along the ground. The leaves are oval and have 2-8 lobes along the stalk. The leaves are 5-15 cm long. They have a rough sandpapery surface underneath. The figs are in the axils of leaves. They are on stalks 5 cm long. The figs are about 1 cm across. The become red when ripe.
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