Tree up to 20 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-8(-15) mm thick, brownish to whitish hirtellous to strigose to appressed-puberulous; periderm usually persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform to (sub)ovate to elliptic (to oblong to subobovate) (or when juvenile (sub)palmately), 3-7-lobed to-fid, (2-)9-23 by (1-)6-17 cm (when juvenile up to 40 by 35 cm), (sub)coriaceous, apex subacute to shortly acuminate, base cordate to rounded, margin entire (to crenate or denticulate), when dry ± revolute; upper surface appressed-puberulous on the veins and smooth (or hispidulous to hirtellous and scabrous to scabridulous), lower surface densely felted-tomentose, leaving most of the vein reticulations visible, main veins glabrous to sparsely appressed-puberulous or hirtellous; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 5-7 (when juvenile-8), the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform (to reticulate in small leaves); waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, sometimes also in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole (1-)5-13 cm long, brownish to whitish hirtellous to strigose to appressed-puberulous, the epidermis usually persistent; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, pale brown subsericeous. Figs mostly below the leaves on previous season’s growth, in pairs, sessile or mostly with a peduncle 0.2-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, 2-3 mm long, white appressed-puberulous; receptacle (depressed-)globose to ellipsoid, 0.5-1.8 cm diam. when dry, sometimes up to 0.3 cm long stipitate, densely to sparsely whitish to brownish puberulous to hirtellous, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, flat or concave, ostiole 3-3.5 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white.
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