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A fig. It is a shrub. It grows in water. It forms thickets. It grows 1.5 m high. The young branches are dark brown. The leaves are narrowly oval and 3-10 cm long. They are a dark grey-green above and paler underneath. They have a rough surface and teeth along the edge. The fruit are figs that occur singly in the axils of leaves. They are 1-2 cm across and covered with coarse hairs.
Figs solitary, axillary; peduncle 5–20 mm. long; bracts 1–3, small, scattered over the peduncle, sometimes whorled; receptacle subpyriform to ellipsoid or subglobose ,up to 3 cm. in diam. when fresh, (0.5) 1–1.5 cm. in diam. when dry, hispidulous, yellow, pink, red or purple at maturity.
Leafy twigs 1.5–4 mm. thick, hirtellous to puberulous.
Shrub up to 1.5(4) m. tall.
