Tree, c. 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 8-15 mm thick, brownish hirtellous to subhirsute, with (large, sometimes almost band-shaped) nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; some large lenticels just below the scars of the stipules; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged or subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate to subrhombic, 24-38 by 11-17 cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate to subcuneate, margin denticulate towards the apex dentate; upper surface hirtellous to hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface (rather) densely brownish hirtellous on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 3.5-7 cm long, hirtellous to subhirsute, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 3.5-4 cm long, brownish to whitish strig(ill)ose to subsericeous, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous “in large clumps (up to 30 cm diam.) or small clusters along the stem”; peduncle 3-6 cm long; basal bracts 3, (sub)verticillate, 2-3 mm long; receptacle subobovoid to pyriform, 2-2.5 cm diam. when dry, up to 4.5 cm diam. when fresh, up to c. 1 cm long stipitate, brown puberulous, without lateral bracts, ribbed, at maturity reddish brown with pale spots, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole 7-8 mm diam., including 5 or 6 hardly distinct short apical bracts; internal hairs bristles rather abundant, brownish.
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