Tree, to 40 m tall, usually a conspicuous strangler (juveniles especially), usually glabrous; trunk often unbuttressed; sap milky, copious. Leaves clustered near ends of stems; petioles 2-4 cm long; stipules 2-3 cm long, ovate, caducous; blades obovate or oblanceolate, rounded to obtuse at apex, cuneate at base, 15-25 cm long, 6-12 cm wide, often drying grayish above, the veins in 8-11 pairs. Figs paired, globose, 1.5-3 cm diam, green, borne among leaves, glabrous or minutely velvety pubescent; peduncles obsolete or to 8 mm long; ostioles usually slightly raised; basal bracts 2, to 2 cm long, semicircular, minutely pubescent, sometimes split. Croat 8276.