Tree up to c. 40 m tall, with buttresses up to 1.30 m. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid or hollow, ± angular, densely minutely brownish to whitish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina oblong to subovate to lanceolate (or to elliptic), (2.5-)5-15(-20) by (1.2-)2-6.5(-7.5) cm, (almost) symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex equilateral to ± inequilateral, subacuminate to acute (or to subcaudate), base rounded to cuneate to subattenuate, margin entire, ± revolute, ciliolate and glabrescent or glabrous; upper surface glabrous, dull to ± shining when dry, often drying greenish to greyish, lower surface glabrous or (very sparsely) appressed-puberulous on the midrib, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 9-16 pairs, the basal pair distinct, departing from the midrib in acute angles, the others at angles up to 90º, tertiary venation largely parallel to the lateral veins, creating 1-3 secondary lateral veins in between the major ones, often running into the ‘marginal vein’, the smaller veins flat to slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often partly on the midrib and/or extending downwards; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, appressed-puberulous or glabrous, the epidermis sooner or later flaking off (or persistent?); stipules 1-4(-6) cm long, densely brownish to yellowish appressed-puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1.5-4 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-1(-1.2) cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate, glabrous, red to scarlet at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., mostly slightly prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red(dish), glabrous. Stamen 1.
A subcanopy to large canopy tree in lowland to submontane forest, commonly on river banks and in stony river beds, at elevations up to 1,200 metres.
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