Tree up to 30 m tall, slightly buttressed, deciduous (?). Branchlets often drying dark (red-)brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, white to brownish (to dark brown) puberulous to subhispidulous to subhirtellous (or subtomentose to subvelutinous), smooth to scabridulous; internodes solid or hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong (to subovate), (3-)5-15(-27) by 3.5-10(-13) cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous (to subcoriaceous), apex short-acuminate to obtuse, base ± inequilateral, subcordate to rounded to obtuse (to cuneate), margin irregularly crenate-denticulate to subentire, usually ± revolute; upper surface hispidulous to puberulous on the veins, scabrous, often ± bullate, lower surface densely to sparsely whitish (to pale brown) puberulous to subtomentose to (sub)hispidulous on the veins, scabrous to smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins (4-)7-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/2 the length of the lamina, these and mostly also other lateral veins branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform, tertiary and smaller veins prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins and smaller ones in the axils of the other lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely to densely whitish (to pale brown) puberulous to (sub)hispidulous (or subtomentose to subvelutinous), the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-1 cm long, appressed-puberulous to strigillose, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, or also in clusters on short-shoots on older wood; peduncle 0.2-1 cm long; peduncular bracts (2 or) 3, scattered or 2 (sub)opposite (or 3 verticillate), 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.4-0.8 cm diam. when dry, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when fresh, minutely hispidulous, the hairs with a swollen base, scabrous, often with few 0.5-1 mm long lateral bracts, yellow to orange to red to purple at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant. Tepals dark to pale red, glabrous or hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous or hairy.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall. The trunk is crooked and fluted. It is 50 cm across. It has buttresses 1.5 m high. The leaves are simple and arranged in spirals. The leaves are 5-15 cm long by 3.5-10 cm wide. The fruit are on the trunk. The fruit are 4-8 mm long by 4-10 mm wide. They are yellow to red when ripe.
A canopy tree in dense, primary, lowland and mountain forest, also in the more open, secondary formations; at elevations up to 1,500 metres.
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