Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, glabrous or appressed-puberulous to strigillose, with (large) nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged to subopposite; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate, (5-)8-25(-35) by 4-14(-17) cm, ± asymmetric to almost symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to subcordate, margin denticulate to subentire; upper surface whitish strigose to strigillose, ± scabrous, lower surface whitish strigose to strigillose on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (5-)7-11 pairs, mostly branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 1.5-6 cm long, whitish hirtellous to subglabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-3.5 cm long, brown strigose, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous on branched up to 70 cm long branchlets, on the trunk and main branches, the internodes up to 2(-6) cm long, the nodes with short or up to 1.5 cm long glabrous to whitish strigillose stipules; peduncle 0.5-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 3-6 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose to subglobose, 1.3-2 cm diam. when dry, whitish puberulous, glabrescent, faintly ribbed, without lateral bracts, red-brown, purple-brown or purple-red at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole 4-7 mm diam., surrounded by 5 apical bracts, slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse to abundant, brown.
Locally common in montane forest and grassland, at elevations from 1,500-2,000 metres.
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