Tree up to c. 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 2-3.5 mm thick, ± angular, (minutely) white puberulous or glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or to lanceolate), 5-15(-19) by 1.5-7 cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to rounded, margin flat; upper surface glabrous, lower surface (minutely) white puberulous on the midrib; midrib (at least the lower part) ± impressed above, lateral veins (6-)7-12 pairs, the basal pair ± to hardly distinct, up to 1/10-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary largely parallel to the lateral veins, slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1-2(-2.2) cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, (minutely) white puberulous or glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 1-2 cm long, glabrous (or (minutely) white puberulous), caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, (sub)equal, white puberulous or glabrous, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid, 0.6-1 cm diam. and 1-1.8 cm long when dry, glabrous, yellow to red at maturity, apex convex and submammillate, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., ± prominent (by a rim), open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts not or partly imbricate, the lower ostiolar bracts short, not interlocked, leaving a channel to the fig cavity; wall shrivelled (or almost smooth) when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly (dark) red.
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