Tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets often drying red-brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, minutely whitish hispidulous to glabrous, scabridulous to smooth; internodes solid or hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to subovate or to subob-ovate, 10-22 by 3-11 cm, mostly asymmetric, sometimes almost symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate (to subacute), base ± inequilateral (to equilateral), rounded to truncate to subcordate or to cuneate, margin irregularly crenate-denticulate to subentire; upper surface glabrous, scabridulous to smooth, lower surface minutely whitish hispidulous on the main veins to (sub)glabrous, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 4-8 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, usually branched, at least at the broad side of the lamina, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins, often partly on the midrib or occasionally fused in the middle of the midrib, small and/or faint glands in the axils of other alteral veins; petiole (0.7-)1-1.5(-2) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely whitish minutely puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.7 cm long, sparsely minutely appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, or ramiflorous to cauliflorous, on initially solitary, but by branching clusters of up to 1 cm long leafless branches with short internodes; peduncle 0.5-1.8 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 2 (sub)opposite, or 3 verticillate, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.7-1.3 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, red or pinkish-yellow at maturity, apex convex to ± umbonate, ostiole 1-2 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant. Tepals reddish or whitish, glabrous or hairy. Styles glabrous or hairy. Fruits ± tuberculate.
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