Shrub or tree up to 10 m tall. Branchlets often drying red-brown. Leafy twigs 2-3.5 mm thick, brown hirtellous to subhirsute or to puberulous or to hispidulous, the long hairs intermixed with much shorter hairs, smooth to scabrous; internodes hollow or solid. Leaves distichous or in lax spirals; lamina oblong to subobovate or to lanceolate, (3-)5-20(-30) by 2-7(-11) cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate (to rounded), base ± inequilateral, cuneate to rounded (to subcordate), margin irregularly crenate-dent(icul)ate to subentire (when juvenile lobate in the lower part), ± revolute; upper surface hispidulous to subhirtellous in the midrib, scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous to puberulous to hispidulous on the veins, smooth or scabrous; cystoliths on both sides; tertiary and smaller veins prominent beneath; lateral veins (3-)5-6(-7, when juvenile-10) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, at the broad side branched, at both sides, or, if running close to the margin, then hardly or not, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.4-1(-1.5) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, brown hirtellous to puberulous to hispidulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul to lateral, 0.3-1(-1.2) cm long, puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, (large ones mostly) solitary or (small ones mostly) in pairs, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.4 cm long; peduncular bracts 1 or 2, mostly scattered (or subtending subsessile figs), 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-1.3 cm diam. when dry, densely hirtellous to subsetulose (with ± irritant hairs) or hispidulous, scabridulous or scabrous, with several subsubulate up to 5 mm long (or without) lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of apical bracts, pointing upwards and up to 4 mm long; internal hairs few or absent. Tepals whitish to pinkish to whitish, minutely hairy at the apeces (or glabrous). Styles glabrous or sparsely hairy.
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