Treelet c. 5 m tall. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, sparsely whitish strigillose, without nodal waxy glands; internodes solid with ample pith; periderm flaking off. Leaves subdistichous or subopposite; lamina oblong, (3-)7-18 by (1.2-)3-7 cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin subentire; upper surface sparsely white strigillose or glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely whitish strigillose or glabrous, smooth, drying greenish, upper surface brown, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)7-10 pairs, unbranched or in large leaves one or some furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of two or more lateral veins in the middle to upper part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely whitish strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, sparsely (dark) brown strigillose at the base, subpersistent, reflexed. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.3-0.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose or to ovoid, 1-1.3 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.8 cm long stipitate, glabrous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, faintly ribbed, apex concave to flat, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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