Shrub. Leafy twigs 5-6 mm thick, densely pale brown puberulous, with pairs of waxy glands at the bases of the petioles, hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina cordiform, 23-33 by 18-21 cm, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin dentate; upper surface strigillose, on the main veins puberulous, ± sca-brous, the lower surface hirtellous on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, other most lateral veins branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 4.5-12 cm long, puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules c. 1.5 cm long, pale brown subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, 4-5 mm long, yellow subsericeous; receptacle ellipsoid to subglobose, c. 2 cm diam. when dry, puberulous and brown hirtellous to subvillous, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to slightly protracted, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by some bracts with dense stiff dark brown hairs, or one or two of them sublateral; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.
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