Tree up to 20 m tall. Leafy twigs 5-12 mm thick, white to brownish puberulous, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm (sooner or later) flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged (or subopposite); lamina (broadly) elliptic to oblong, 20-45 by 14-32 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex (short-)acuminate, base cordate to truncate to rounded, margin denticulate towards the apex dentate; upper surface hirtellous to hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface (rather) densely whitish hirtellous on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, all (or most) of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in extensions of the axils of lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in the furcations of lateral veins; petiole 2-6 cm long, hirtellous, the epidermis (sooner or later) flaking off; stipules 1.5-4.5 cm long, brownish to whitish hirtellous to subsericeous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs cauliflorous, sometimes ramiflorous (just below the leaves), mostly on up to 45 cm long stout mostly unbranched branchlets, on the trunk and the main (and lesser?) branches, the nodes prominent, the distal nodes with subpersistent stipules; peduncle 1-6 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 6-10 mm long; receptacle turbinate to pyriform, when dry 2-3 cm diam., whitish to brownish puberulous, without lateral bracts, ribbed, at maturity orange to reddish or brownish, apex ± concave and ostiole depressed, ostiole 5-8 mm diam., surrounded by 5 incurved apical bracts; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brownish.
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