Tree up to 17 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, pale brown strig(ill)ose to hirtellous, with (conspicuous) nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate or to lanceolate, (5-)10-30 by (1.5-)3-12 cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, often drying greenish, apex (sub)caudate, base cuneate to obtuse to rounded (to emarginate), margin towards the apex (and on the acumen) denticulate, mostly ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface pale-brown appressed-puberulous to strigillose, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-12 pairs, towards the base closer together, none, some or most of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, in the middle part of the lamina running perpendicular to the midrib; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina or also in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm long, brownish strigillose to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.8-1.7 cm long, on the keel pale brown subsericeous, often subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on pendulous slender branches and up to 6 m long stolons with up to 5 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.2-0.6 cm; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, 1.2-1.6 cm diam. when fresh, whitish puberulous or (sub)glabrous, usually with 1 or 2 flat lateral bracts, yellow-brown at maturity, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by some raised apical bracts; internal hairs sparse to abundant or absent.
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