Tree up to 10 m tall; latex white. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, brown appressed-puberulous, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm (of the older parts) flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged or subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate, 7-25(-32) by 3-10(-17) cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to subcordate, margin denticulate to subentire; upper surface puberulous to subhispidulous, scabridulous, lower surface brown hirtellous to strigose to whitish puberulous on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (6-)8-13 pairs, some of them 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; petiole (1-)2-8 cm long, brown puberulous to hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5(-2.2) cm long, brown to whitish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on up to c. 15 cm long branched branchlets with (very) short internodes, on the trunk; peduncle 1-3.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-3 mm long; receptacle obovoid to pyriform to depressed-globose, (2-)2.5-3 cm diam. when dry, 3.5-4.5 cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, ribbed, without lateral bracts, at maturity yellow to brownish, apex concave, ostiole 6-8 mm diam., depressed; internal hairs rather sparse, whitish.
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A fig. It is a small tree up to about 7 m high. It has an upright stem and a large canopy of leaves. The leaves are 7-35 cm long by 4-18 cm wide. The fruit are borne on the stem and branches. They are pear shaped to round and 5-7.5 cm wide. When young the fruit are greenish-brown but turn orange-brown when ripe.
Common along the banks of streams and rice fields, at elevations up to 1,200 metres. Lowland river-banks, particularly where deforested, often in thickets, not in dryer places.
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A tropical plant. It occurs in rainforest in Malaysia mostly near water. It grows along stream banks and up to 1,300 m above sea level.
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