Tree up to 15 m tall. Branchlets pale brown to yellowish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina subobovate to obovate to elliptic, 8-20 by 3-8 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex acuminate, base ± (almost) equilateral, cuneate, margin entire or irregularly coarsely crenate-dentate to sublobate; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 4-6(-7) pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation (laxly) (sub)scalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands in the axils of (usually) one of the basal lateral veins or also in those of other lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-2 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules amplexicaul, 0.5-1.5 cm long, glabrous or (minutely) puberulous or only ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.8-1.6 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered or 2 (sub)opposite, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose (to subpyriform), 0.8-1.3 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam.; internal hairs absent. Tepals dark red whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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