Shrub or tree up to 8 m tall. Leafy twigs 2.5-5 mm thick, brown (sub)hirsute to hispid, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, often with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous (drooping); lamina oblong to subobovate to (ob)lanceolate, (6-)10-30(-45) by (1.5-)5-10(-16) cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to (sub)caudate, base cuneate to subcordate at the narrow side, rounded to deeply cordate to auriculate at the broad side, the lobe often covering the petiole, margin dentate to serrate in the acumen; upper surface whitish to brownish strigose to hirtellous on the main veins or to hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface (dark to pale) brown (sub)hirsute on the veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, ± scabrous (to scabridulous or smooth), cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)8-12(-14) pairs, at the broad side of the lamina some or most of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, in the upper 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; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm long, brown (sub)hirsute, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-4(-5.5) cm long, brown to whitish subsericeous or partly brown strigose, caducous or subpersistent. Figs flagelliflorous on up to 10 m long slender stolons with up to 10 cm long internodes, often extending into leafy shoots; figs with a peduncle up to 0.6 cm long or sessile; basal bracts 3 and verticillate, or up to 7 and subverticillate, 3-7 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose to obovoid to pyriform, (1-)1.5-3 cm diam. when dry, (1.5-)2-4 cm diam. when fresh, sometimes slightly stipitate, brown puberulous to hirtellous to subhispid, with numerous ± incurved lateral bracts, pink to red to dark red-brown to purplish at maturity, apex ± convex; ostiole 4-5 mm, including the rosette of apical bracts, 7-8 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent.
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A fig. It is a small tree. It is spindly and grows 2-8 meters high. It has white smooth bark. The trunk is 5-8 cm across. Several branches of one tree growing out of the ground. The leaves are alternate and simple. The leaves are rough and fuzzy. They are unequal on the sides and have teeth along the edge. The stems on the ground have fruit, which have red fuzz and green spikes. The fruit are 17 mm across. The fruit are eaten.
In disturbed mixed dipterocarp, sub-montane and regrowth forests at elevations up to 1,800 metres. Usually along rivers and streams, but also on hillsides and ridges.
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A tropical plant. It grows on forests up to 1,800 m above sea level. It can be on sandy or clay soils. It grows in Borneo.
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