Trees up to 30 m tall, buttressed, with a trunk up to 3.5 m in diamter; crown spread; bark grayish brown, flaking, becoming yellowish on older trunks; slash pale brown, yellowish or piinkish; latex milky white; young branches with brown bark, puberulous, 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, caduous, leaving a circular fringe of whitish or brownish hairs; petiole 3-5 cm long, often with scaly peeling outer layer when dry; blade 3-5 cm long, 2-10.5 cm wide, more or less leathery, with 4-8 pairs of veins, broadly ovate, elliptic, or suborbiulcar, base rounded to narrowly cordate, margin subentire to crenulate, tip rounded, acute, or shortly acuminate; lower surface often pubescent; upper surface dull, slightly scabrous or smooth. 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, 3-4 mm long, ovate to triangular, puberuolous;receptacle pear-shaped, 1.8-2.5(5) cm long, 1-2 cm in diameterobovoid or subglobose, oten somewhat stipitate, puberulous to tomentose; ostiole prominent, with 3-5 clearly visible bracts.