Tree up to 20 m tall. Branchlets drying brown to yellowish or greyish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, minutely whitish puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to lanceolate, 4-12 by 1-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly subacuminate to rounded, base obtuse to cuneate, margin entire, flat, callose; upper surface glabrous, shining when dry, lower surface (sub)glabrous (but with numerous minute brown pluricellular hairs), smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib (almost) flat above, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, the basal lateral veins up to 1/20 to 1/6 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands absent; petiole 0.3-2.2 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick when dry, similar in length on the same twig, the epidermis flaking of or persistent; stipules 0.5-1.2 cm long, minutely puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.6-1 cm long; basal bracts 3, 0.5-1 mm long, caducous or subpersistent; receptacle subglobose, (0.8-)1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 0-0.2 cm long stipitate, sparsely minutely puberulous, dark red to purple-violet at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 1 or 2.
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