Large tree up to c. 30 m tall, buttressed, with a trunk up to 3.5 m in diam.; crown spreading; bark greyish-brown, flaking, often becoming yellowish on older trunks; slash pale brown, yellowish or pinkish; latex milky white; young branches with brown bark, puberulous to pubescent or lanate, often peeling off in scales when dry. Leaves almost in 2 rows; stipules lateral, free, covering buds as scarious lanate to hirsute grey or brown scales, caducous leaving a circular fringe of whitish or brownish hairs; petiole 3–5 cm long, often with scaly peeling outer layer when dry; blade ± leathery, broadly ovate, elliptic or suborbicular, 3–15 x 2–10.5 cm, base rounded to narrowly cordate, margin subentire to crenulate, apex rounded, acute or shortly acuminate, dull, slightly scabrous or smooth above, scabrous or smooth, often pubescent below, with 4–8 pairs of lateral veins. Figs 1–2 together, either on clusters of leafless branchlets on the trunk or older branches or in the axil of normal leaves, on peduncles up to 1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, ovate to triangular, 3–4 mm long, puberulous; receptacle pear-shaped, obovoid or subglobose, often ± stipitate, 1.8–2.5(–5) x 1–2 cm, puberulous to tomentose; ostiole prominent, with 3–5 clearly visible triangular ostiolar bracts.
