Treelet up to 5 (or more?) m tall. Leafy twigs 3-8 mm thick, whitish hirtellous, the hairs of about the same length, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous or (sub)opposite; lamina oblong to subobovate to lanceolate, (8-)15-25 by (3.5-)7-11 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to subcordate, margin denticulate; upper surface strigillose to hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface whitish hirtellous to strigillose on the veins, scabridulous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole (1-)3-5 cm long, whitish hirtellous to subhispid, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.2-3.5 cm long, whitish to brownish hirtellous to substrigose, (usually) subpersistent. Figs flagelliflorous on branched (or unbranched?) stolons with up to 6 cm long internodes, the figs on lateral branches with short internodes; peduncle 0.4-0.8 cm long, slender; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to subpyriform, non-stipitate or up to 0.2 mm long stipitate, 1-1.3 cm diam. when dry, c. 2.5 (?) cm diam. when fresh, whitish subhispidulous, 5+5-ribbed, without lateral bracts, red at maturity, apex flat to somewhat concave, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., depressed, sur-rounded the prominent ends of the major ribs; internal hairs absent or sparse, whitish.
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