Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, brown to whitish strigillose, without nodal glands; internodes solid; periderm persistent. Leaves in lax spirals to subdistichous; lamina oblong to subobovate to oblanceolate, 5-20 by 1.5-7 cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to rounded, margin denticulate towards the apex, also the acumen denticulate; upper surface rather densely whitish to brownish strigillose, ± scabrous, lower surface brownish to whitish strigillose to appressed-puberulous, ± scabridulous, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins 6-10, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent or, if present, then in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; waxy glands absent or sometimes also minute ones in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.8-2.5(-4.5) cm long, brown to whitish strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.8-1.5 cm long, brown to whitish strigillose, subpersistent (or caducous). Figs cauliflorous on branched up to 30 cm long branchlets with 0.3-0.8 cm long (sub)persistent stipules, on the older wood; peduncle 0.1-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-1.2 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, brownish appressed-puberulous, faintly ribbed, with a few lateral bracts, mainly in the upper part of the receptacle, passing into apical bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., surrounded with short apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, brownish, long(er than the flowers?).
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