Tree up to 25 m tall, terrestrial. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2 mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina linear to lanceolate, 4-14 by 0.5-3 cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, coriaceous, apex acute to subacuminate, base (almost) equilateral, cuneate, margin entire or unilaterally or bilaterally (and obliquely) lobed, often ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly prominent to flat above; veins 8-20 pairs, the basal pair (weakly developed and) running close to the margin, up to 1/20-1/10 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins departing the midrib at angles of (nearly) 90°, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, (0.5-)1-2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.1-0.4 cm long; peduncular bracts 3, at the base of the peduncle, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.4 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, yellowish at maturity, apex umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a rim; internal hairs minute, sparse. Tepals whitish, ciliolate. Styles glabrous.
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