Spreading shrub to 2 m high, generally scabrid. Leaves alternate, often subverticillate or opposite, shortly petiolate to subsessile, usually reflexed; lamina linear to oblong, 1.5–6.5 cm long, 0.2–0.8 cm wide, obtuse to rounded to somewhat truncate or cordate at base, recurved margin, setose, obtuse to apiculate at apex, coriaceous, villous and scabrid; lateral veins 16–30 pairs, at 90° to midrib; stipules 1–3 mm long, scarious. Figs axillary, sessile (or with peduncle to 2 mm long), globular, 0.4–1 cm diam., green, lightly to densely scabrid, often glabrescent; ostiole 2–3 mm diam., ostiolar bracts forming a small umbo; basal bracts minute; peduncle to 2 mm long. Male flowers in 1 ring, pedicellate; tepals 3–5; stamen 1. Female and gall flowers sessile to subsessile; tepals 3–5. [The above description adapted from Chew (1989) may require further revision to exclude possible elements of Ficus scobina since Chew in the Flora of Australia Volume 3 included Northern Territory specimens in his treatment of F. podocarpifolia-Editor, 6 February 2022.]
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