Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, puberulous and densely brownish hirtellous to subvelutinous, with pairs of waxy glands at the bases of the petioles; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to ovate, sometimes 3-lobed, 6-16 by 3.5-9.5 cm, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base (sub)cordate, margin (and acumen) dentate; upper surface densely hirtellous to subhispid, ± scabrous, lower surface densely yellow to brown hirtellous on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4-7 pairs, basal pair branched, up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1.2-7 cm long, densely brown(ish) hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.4-0.6 cm long, yellow to brown subsericeous to subhirtellous, caducous. Figs in pairs or solitary, sessile; basal bracts 3, c. 2 mm long, appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose, 1-1.2 cm diam. when dry, densely yellow to brown(ish) hirtellous to subvelutinous, yellowish at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs abundant, yellow.
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