Shrub or tree up to 9 m tall, sometimes (?) lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying (pale) brown to yellowish, often with (axillary) tufts of small subulate and ciliolate stipules. Leafy twigs 1.5-4 mm thick, brown puberulous (with the hairs often ± retrorse) to whitish minutely hispidulous, smooth; internodes solid (or hollow). Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate to elliptic or to subovate, 6-28(-35) by 2-10(-12.5) cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex caudate (with acumen narrow and often curved) or subcaudate, base inequilateral, rounded to subcordate, one side decurrent and in (relatively) large leaves extended by an up to 1.5 cm long oblong to elliptic and acute lobe with a distinct midrib, in smaller leaves the decurrent side just a strip of mesophyll along the petiole, sometimes auriculate or occasionally extended with an subulate structure, margin subentire to denticulate, mostly ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface brown subhirtellous to puberulous to subtomentose or to (sparsely) hispidulous on the veins, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath or on both sides; midrib prominent above; lateral veins (7-)10-13(-15) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/6(-1/2) the length of the lamina, unbranched or faintly branched, the other lateral veins usually unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform, in small leaves to subreticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.2-1(-1.3) cm long, puberulous to subtomentose to hispidulous, the epidermis (±) flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.8 or (0.5-)1-2.3 cm long, brownish puberulous to strigillose, striate, subpersistent or caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or paired; peduncle 0.1-0.2 or 0.2-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, but mostly at the base, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.6 or 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous to subglabrous, smooth to scabridulous, sometimes with some lateral bracts, orange to red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 1.5 mm diam., surrounded by a lobed/bracteate rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
Home