Tree up to 20 m tall. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, brown strigillose, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off; often with minute abortive axillary buds (also below the leaves). Leaves distichous, occasionally subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate (or obovate), 6-15(-27) by 2-6(-9.5) cm, often ± asymmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex ± abruptly acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire, sometimes faintly denticulate towards the apex; upper surface sparsely brown strigillose on the midrib, smooth, lower surface ± sparsely strigillose on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-12 pairs, rarely branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform (to almost reticulate); waxy glands mostly absent, sometimes small ones in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle of the lamina; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, brownish strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, brown strigillose or glabrous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on branched (or unbranched) up to 60 cm long branchlets, on the trunk; peduncle 1-3 cm long, the epidermis flaking off; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to subpyriform to depressed-globose, 1.2-2(-2.5) cm diam. when dry, 2-3.5 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off (at least in dry material), without lateral bracts, at maturity yellow or brownish, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole 4-8 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of erect bracts; internal hairs absent or sparse.
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A fig. It is a small tree. It grows 17 m tall. The stems have white sap. The leaves are alternate and simple. The fruit are 17 mm across. They are round and golden brown. They are in dense clusters along the stem.
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