Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 6-12 cm thick, brown hirsute to substrigose, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, without waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to obovate, 17-30(-50) by 9-20(-30) cm, often slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin dentate to denticulate (towards the base); upper surface brownish strigillose and on the main veins to hirtellous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous to subhirsute on the main veins, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-12 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation ± loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the lateral veins in the middle of the lamina, sometimes also in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often additional glands in the axils of branches or furcations of lateral veins; petiole 2-15 cm long, brown (sub)hirsute, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 2-6 cm long, white appressed-puberulous to brown hirtellous to substrigose on the keel, (sub)persistent. Figs cauliflorous on stout unbranched or sparingly branched up to 40 cm long branchlets with short internodes and prominent scars of the fig peduncles and 1-2 cm long stipules, on the older wood, down to the base of the trunk; peduncle 0.4-4 cm long; basal bracts 1 or 2, non-verticillate, 2-5 cm long bracts on the peduncle, passing into the lateral bracts; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose, 2.5-3 cm diam. when dry, sparsely hirtellous to glabrous, with numerous elliptic, up to 2 cm long, thinly coriaceous lateral bracts with ± conspicuous subflabellate venation, yellowish at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., surrounded by small apical bracts; internal hairs absent or sparse and brownish.
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