Shrub up to 5 m tall, sparingly branched. Leafy twigs 5-9 mm thick, (sub)glabrous, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina elliptic, 10-25 by 4.5-13 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface very sparsely brownish strigillose, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface brown strigose to strigillose on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 5-10 pairs, some of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina or also small one in furcations of lateral veins or absent; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-3 cm long, glabrous, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, clustered on up to 0.5 cm long spurs, ± concealed by the stipules, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, subverticillate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1.6-1.8 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., including 5 erect apical bracts; internal hairs sparse.
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