Tree up to 13 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, brown strigillose, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged or subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate, 12-30 by 4-12 cm, slightly asymmetric to symmetric, chartaceous, often drying greenish beneath, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin towards the apex denticulate, mostly ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface brown strigillose on the veins, smooth cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, none or (in larger leaves) some of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina or also in furcations of lateral veins; petiole (1.5-)2-7 cm long, brown strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.8-1.5 cm long, on the keel brown strigillose, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on stout branched up to 30 cm long branchlets, on the older wood; peduncle 0.5-2.2 cm; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2.5-4 mm long; receptacle subglobose to subellipsoid, 1.4-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 2-2.2 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, without lateral bracts, towards the apex 5-or 6-ribbed, yellow-brown at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 or 6 raised apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, brownish.
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