Tree up to 25 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, pale brown puberulous to tomentellous and pale to rusty brown hirtellous to subhirsute, occasionally with minute nodal glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm persistent or flaking off (at least below the leaves). Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate, (5-)8-25 by (1.5-)4-12 cm, (almost) symmetric or slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous (to chartaceous), apex acuminate (to subcaudate), base cuneate to obtuse to rounded or to subcordate (or emarginate), margin entire, flat or ± revolute, at least towards the base; upper surface (or only the midrib, always?) initially subarachnoid villous, (also the midrib) soon glabrous, smooth, lower surface densely pale brown (sub)tomentose all veins or the smaller veins sparsely hairy to glabrous and the main veins pale brown subsericeous or pale to rusty brown (sub)hirsute; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 9-15 pairs, one, some or none of them furcate far from the margin, the basal pairs often ± distinct, often running ± distinctly parallel to the margin or not so, tertiary venation scalariform, ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of one or both of the basal lateral veins and often also smaller ones in the furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 1-3.5 cm long, pale brown tomentose or puberulous to tomentellous and pale to rusty brown hirtellous or (sub)hirsute, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-2.7 cm long, often only partly (only on and along the keel) rusty brown to pale brown hirtellous to (sub)tomentose to subhirsute or to subsericeous or almost glabrous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, solitary (or in pairs) or (also?) ramiflorous on tuberculate spurs on previous season’s growth, or cauliflorous on up to c. 20 cm long, branched leafless branchlets on the trunk, with a peduncle 0.2-0.5 cm long or sessile; basal bracts 3 (or 4), (sub)verticillate or ± scattered, 1.5-3 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, densely rusty brown to yellowish subtomentose to puberulous, the indumentum (sooner or later) flaking off or persistent, often with one or some lateral bracts, mainly towards the base and towards the apex, at maturity red (or brownish or greenish?), apex convex to flat, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by c. 5 often ± scattered apical bracts or not; internal hairs rather sparse to abundant, yellowish or whitish.
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