[1] The species can grow up to 20 m in height, with a spreading crown, bark is pale brown to greyish in color, it has a fibrous slash exuding milky white latex; the branches tend to be pale brownish in color when mature and velvety when young.

Single figs borne on leaf axils that sometimes reach up to 3 cm in diameter and are shortly pubescent.

[2] In the forests of Uganda, black crested mangabeys and chimpanzees have been observed to eat the figs of the species.

[3][4] In Ivory Coast, bat species, Epomops buettikoferi and Micropteropus pusillus have been observed to also feed on the figs of Ficus vallis-choudae.

Commonly found in swampy and gallery forest regions and woodlands, also can be spotted in grasslands.