Tree up to 40 m tall, becoming up to 9 m high buttressed. Leafy twigs 4-6 mm thick, brownish subvelutinous; internodes hollow or solid; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to cordiform, (6-)12-24 by (3.5-)8-18 cm, symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base cordate to subcordate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface densely brownish (sub)tomentose on the main veins, smooth, lower surface densely brownish (sub)tomentose on the veins; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 5-8 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2 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 2-7 cm long, brown subvelutinous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.8-1.5 cm long, brownish (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary; peduncle 1.5-3 cm long; basal bracts 3, 3-4 mm long, caducous; receptacle pyriform to subglobose to ovoid, 2.5-3.5 cm diam. when dry, 3-4 cm diam. when fresh, greenish (?) at maturity, apex flat, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., prominent; wall with flower-bearing inward projections; internal hairs abundant. Tepals of pistillate flowers narrow, entire or sublaciniate.
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A tree. It grows 40 m tall. It has buttresses up to 9 m high. The leaves are arranged in spirals.
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