A large evergreen, glabrous, upto 30 m tall tree, with a dense crown and spreading branches without prop roots. Trunk massive, 1,5-1.5 m in circumference with copious much butteresed and fluted aerial roots spreading on the ground, bark grayish or reddish brown, young twigs finely puberulous. Leaves with 2.5-6 (-8) cm long petiole; lamina thick, glossy above, oblong or elliptic, (10-) 15-25 (-30) cm long, (4-) 5-15 (-22) cm wide, base cuneate, margins entire, apex obtuse with c. 8-10 mm long acumen; lateral nerves almost parallel, 20-30 (-40) pairs, hardly raised beneath, intercostals absent; cystoliths abundant above, few below; stipules very large, 8-25 cm long often rosy to pinkish-brown. Hypanthodia sessile, in extra axillary pairs below the leaves, pale-greenish, subtended by 3 caducous basal bracts, without internal bristles, apical orifice closed by 3-4 apical bracts. Male flowers: pedicellate, dispersed in the interior of receptacle; sepals (3-) 4, ovate, patent. Female flowers: sessile; sepals 4, free, ovary smooth with subterminal style. Figs ovoid-oblong, 10-12 mm long, 6-8 mm across, pale to yellowish brown.