Tree. Branchlets drying (dark) brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, solid, ± angular, brownish puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)obovate, 4.5-11 by 2.5-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (shortly and bluntly) acuminate, base obtuse to rounded, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface (minutely) brownish puberulous, mainly on the midrib and lateral veins, smooth; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins (6-)8-12 pairs, the basal pair slightly distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.4-0.8 cm long, brownish puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules c. 1 cm long, keel prominent, appressed puberulous on the keel and ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, 0.2-0.5 cm long stipitate, sparsely glabrous, red-brown (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals (dark) red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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