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Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic or subobovate to ovate-lanceolate, 2.5–8 x 0.7–3 cm., subcoriaceous to chartaceous; apex subacute to somewhat acuminate; base obtuse to rounded or emarginate; margin entire; both surfaces glabrous, or the midrib puberulous beneath; lateral veins 6–9 pairs; tertiary venation reticulate; petiole 0.7–3(4) cm. long, c. 0.5(1) mm. thick; stipules 2–10 mm. long, up to 3 cm. long on new flush, glabrous, caducous.
Receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 2–2.5 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1–1.5 cm. in diam. when dry, sparsely or densely minutely puberulous to almost glabrous, ?green at maturity, not or hardly wrinkled and slightly stipitate when dry, wall 0.5–1 mm. thick when dry.
Figs 1–6 together on curved spurs up to 2 cm. long on the older wood; bud scales of the spurs glabrous or nearly so; peduncle 5–20 mm. long, 0.5–1 mm. thick; basal bracts c. 3 mm. long, free pans caducous or sometimes subpersistent.
Tree up to 10 m. tall or a shrub, hemi-epiphytic and strangling or secondarily terrestrial, sometimes a liana.
A fig. It is a tree. The figs are produced in large clusters on the branches. They are green with white spots.
Leafy twigs 1–3(5) mm. thick, sparsely minutely puberulous, periderm not flaking off.
