Tree up to 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 5-7 mm thick, dark brown hirsute to hirtellous, with rather conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules, scars of leaves prominent; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (to subrhombic), 10-40 by 6-20 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub) cordate (to rounded), margin denticulate (towards the apex); upper surface white to brown strigillose, ± scabrous to almost smooth, lower surface (dark) brown hirtellous to subhirsute to strig(ill)ose, the hairs ± appressed or patent and mainly pointing sidewards on the main veins, puberulous or hispidulous on the smaller veins, on the main veins the stiff brown hairs sometimes intermixed with minute patent white ones, ± scabrous or smooth; cystoliths on both sides (or only beneath); lateral veins 6-9 pairs, the (main) basal pair up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, these and other lower lateral veins mostly branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands largely on the midrib, below the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins, mostly also below the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 2-13 cm long, usually varying considerably on the same twig, (dark) brown strigillose to subhirsute, the epidermis persistent or ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 1.5-3.5 cm long, densely white appressed-puberulous to brown strigillose towards and on the midrib, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, or cauliflorous, on large clusters of up to 12 cm long branched leafless branchlets with short internodes; peduncle 0.3-1.5(-2) cm long; peduncular bracts, mostly 2 or 3, scattered, 1-3 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, brown strigillose to setose, the rigid and irritant hairs with a swollen base, with few up to 2 mm long lateral bracts, red to brown at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by up to 3 mm long apical bracts pointing upwards; internal hairs abundant to sparse or absent. Tepals dark red, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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