Tree up to 6(-10) m tall. Leafy twigs 5-7 mm thick, (dark) brown (sub)hirsute or whitish strigose, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina elliptic to obovate (or oblong to subobovate), (9-)12-30 by (1-)5-18 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base truncate to subcordate or to subcuneate, margin denticulate; upper surface strigose to hispid(ulous), ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirsute or whitish strigose to subhispidulous on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal pair and some other lateral veins and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-3 cm long, brown hirsute or white strigose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-3 cm long, partly brown (sub)hirsute or whitish strigose, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 4-10 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1.5-2.2 cm diam. when dry, (dark) brown (sub)hirsute, usually with a few lateral bracts, yellow (or red?) at maturity, apex flat, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse and white or brownish, or absent.
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