Tree up to c. 20 m tall, with spreading crown, trunk up to 1 m in diam.; bark pale brown, scaly, fissured; young branches thick, with brown bark, puberulous to glabrescent. Leaves alternate; stipules lateral, free, 0.8–3.5 cm long, hairy; petiole up to 12 cm long, pubescent; blade leathery, drying dark green, ovate-elliptic to rarely obovate, 5–25 x 3–17 cm, base deeply cordate, often with ± overlapping basal lobes, margin entire, apex rounded or obtuse, glabrescent above, pubescent to glabrescent below, venation as in F. populifolia, midrib with 9–11 pairs of lateral veins and glandular tissue below at the leaf base. Calyptra flattened, conical, very early shed. Figs 1 or more in the leaf axils, on peduncles 2–5 cm long, slender, pubescent; basal bracts 2, ovate, united at the base, apical part caducous; receptacle globose, c. 1 cm in diam., pubescent; ostiole not prominent, 2-lipped, without visible bracts.
