Tree up to 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 5-11 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous (or sparsely minutely white puberulous, mainly on the scars of the stipules); periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate (to oblanceolate), 13-25(-35) by 6-13(-17) cm, (thickly) coriaceous, apex rounded to short-acuminate, base obtuse to cuneate or to rounded (to subcordate); both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib ± impressed (at least the lower part) above, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to (1/4-)1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, without smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, ± prominent to flat and then often ± obscure beneath, the smaller veins usually obscure; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole (2-)3-5(-6.5) cm long, 3-5 mm thick, glabrous, drying brown or blackish; stipules 2-4 cm long, ± densely whitish to brownish puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-10 mm long, semicircular, almost equal or ± unequal, (1 or) 2 with a distinct median part or keeled, puberulous on the median part or glabrous, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to subovoid, 2-3.5 cm diam. and 3-5 cm long when dry, (sub)glabrous, yellow to red at maturity, apex ± convex (to submammillate), ostiole 3-4 mm diam., prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary red.
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