Tree up to c. 50 m tall, with buttresses up to 3.5 m high. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-6 mm thick, solid (or hollow), terete or slightly compressed, glabrous (or yellowish puberulous). Leaves (sub)distichous; lamina oblong to subovate, (5-)10-30 by (2-)6-12 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex subacuminate to subacute, base rounded to subcordate (or to cuneate), margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent to flat above, lateral veins 10-17 pairs, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate, in large leaves to loosely (sub)scalariform, the smaller veins almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often partly on the midrib; petiole (0.5-)1-3 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis persistent (or flaking off); stipules (1-)2-7 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs; 0.2-1.5 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts 3, verticillate (or ± scattered on the peduncle), c. 1 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, (1-)1.5-3 cm diam. when dry, (1.5-)2.5-4.5 cm diam. when fresh, 0-1.5 cm long stipitate, glabrous, yellow at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., flat or slightly sunken; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 1 or 2.
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A tree. It can grow 50 m tall. The trunk is 60 cm across and is fluted. It has buttresses 2 m tall. The leaves are spaced along the branches in spirals. The leaves are 20-28 cm long by 8-12 cm wide.
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