Tree up to 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-6 mm thick, sparsely (to densely) white to brownish appressed-puberulous to strigillose or subglabrous, with (small) nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off (often starting below the leaves). Leaves spirally arranged, partly (sub)opposite or (on the ultimate branches) distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate, (3.5-)5-20(-30) by (1.5-)2.5-10(-15) cm, usually ± asymmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse at one side, cuneate to rounded (to subcordate) at the other side, margin ± irregularly crenate-dentate to-denticulate (towards the apex) or (sub)entire, flat; upper surface sparsely white appressed-puberulous to strigillose, glabrescent or glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely white to brownish appressed-puberulous to strigillose on the (main) veins or (sub)glabrous, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-10 pairs, some (or most) of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation ± loosely scalariform; waxy glands small, in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina or also in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-3(-8) cm long, sparsely (to rather densely) whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous to strigillose or (sub)glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-1.5(-4) cm long, white appressed-puberulous to whitish to brownish strigillose, only so at the base, or entirely glabrous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on woody tubercles on the older wood (down to the trunk), developing into up to 10 cm long branched branchlets; peduncle 0.5-2 cm long; basal bracts 3, (usually) verticillate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to pyriform to depressed-globose, 1.5-3(-3.5) cm diam. when dry, 2-4.5 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or up to 0.2 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, without lateral bracts, often finely ribbed, at maturity yellow to brown, apex convex to flat to concave, ostiole 5-10 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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