Tree up to 35 m tall, becoming up to 5 m high buttressed. Leafy twigs 5-10 mm thick, tomentose to hirtellous, often with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform, 20-40(-60) by 15-35(-40) cm, symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex shortly acuminate to rounded, base cordate, margin entire to dentate; upper surface hispid to hispidulous, on the main veins to hirtellous, ± scabrous, lower surface ± densely hirtellous to tomentose on the veins; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins; petiole 6-20 cm long, puberulous to hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-3 cm long, brown subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or cauliflorous on sparingly branched, up to 5 cm long leafless branchlets on the older wood or in the leaf axils; peduncle 1-3.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, 3-9 mm long, caducous; receptacle (sub)pyriform, 2.5-4 cm diam. when dry, 4-7 cm diam. when fresh, puberulous to hirtellous, green at maturity, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole 2-5 mm diam., ± prominent, surrounded by 5 erect apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, white to brown. Tepals of the pistillate flowers laciniate-fimbriate. Style glabrous.
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