Shrubs or small trees, 1-3 m tall. Bark dark grayish, smooth. Branchlets reddish brown, slender, narrowly winged. Stipules caducous, linear to lanceolate, ca. 5 cm. Petiole 4-6 mm; leaf blade obovate-oblong to elliptic-lanceolate, 4-12 × 2-5 cm, papery, with cystoliths, base cuneate, margin apically undulate or with a few blunt teeth, apex long-caudate; basal lateral veins short, secondary veins 5-7 on each side of midvein, oblique to near margin then looped. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary, reddish orange when mature, ellipsoid to ± globose, 0.6-2.5 cm in diam., smooth or tuberculate and lenticellate, apical pore navel-like, ± convex; peduncle 2-10 mm; involucral bracts triangular. Male flowers: near apical pore, pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; stamen 1 or 2(-3). Gall flowers: ovary smooth; style lateral; stigma shortly funnelform. Female flowers: style lateral, long; stigma 2-branched. Achenes lenslike, smooth. Fl. May-Jul, fr. Sep-Oct.
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A fig. It is a shrub or small tree. It grows to about 6 m high. The bark is reddish brown. It is covered with many raised corky spots. The young branches are reddish brown with narrow wings. The leafy growth near the base of the leaf is sword shaped and 5 cm long. The leaves are alternate. They are 5-10 cm long by 2-5 cm wide. They are sword shaped and taper to the tip. The edges have coarse teeth near the tip. They are rough on both surfaces. They narrow towards the base. There are 5-7 secondary veins on each side of the main vein. The figs are oval and wrinkled or warty. They are yellow or orange when ripe. They are 0.6-2.5 cm across. There are named varieties based on the shape of the leaf and the size of the fruit.
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