Tree up to c. 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish (to blackish) or to yellowish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, minutely white puberulous to glabrous; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina elliptic to oblong, (6-)8-20 by (2.5-)3-9 cm, coriaceous, apex (short-)acuminate to rounded, base rounded to obtuse (to cuneate or to subcordate), margin flat or slightly revolute towards the base, often callose (towards the base); both surfaces glabrous; midrib (almost) flat, lateral veins 8-16(-20) pairs, basal pair ± to hardly distinct, up to 1/10-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5-3(-5) cm long, (1-)2-3 mm thick, glabrous, drying brown to blackish; stipules (1-)1.5-3(-4) cm long, (minutely) white puberulous or (sub)glabrous, drying pale brown to straw-coloured or dark brown (or blackish), caducous, often involute when dry. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 2 or 3, 2-5 mm long, unequal in size and shape to subequal, glabrous or puberulous, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to ovoid or to cylindrical, 1.2-2.5 cm diam. and up to 4 cm long when dry, glabrous, at maturity yellow to red to black, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., prominent, open (or closed), the 3 upper ostiolar bracts partly imbricate (or fully imbricate); wall rather thick, ± shrivelled or ribbed to almost smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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A tree. It can grow 30 m tall. It can grow attached to other plants. The leaves are in spirals.
An upperstorey tree in slightly disturbed to undisturbed mixed dipterocarp and sub-montane forests at elevations up to 1,000 metres. Both on alluvial sites as well as ridges. Grows well in dryland and hilly areas.
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