Tree up to c. 35 m tall, hemi-epiphytic (?) or terrestrial. Branches drying yellowish to brown. Leafy twigs (3-)5-10 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous or brownish to whitish puberulous (mainly on the scars of the stipules). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or to subovate or to oblanceolate), (8-)10-23(-28) by (2-)3-10(-14) cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse (to truncate), minutely auriculate or not; upper surface glabrous or brownish puberulous on the midrib, lower surface glabrous or brownish to whitish puberulous on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat to slightly impressed above, lateral veins (7-)10-15 pairs, the basal pair slightly to hardly distinct, up to 1/20-1/5 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate (to subscalariform); waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5-5.5(-8) cm long, 2-3 mm thick, glabrous (or brownish puberulous), drying blackish; stipules (0.5-)1-2(-8) cm long, brownish puberulous to subsericeous or glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs (or solitary), initially enclosed in up to 1 cm long calyptrate bud covers; peduncle 0.5-3.5 cm long, the apex dilated into a rim; basal bracts 3, inserted inside the rim of the peduncle, 2-3 mm long, subequal, sometimes connate, (sparsely) brownish puberulous to subsericeous or glabrous, sooner or later caducous (or persistent?); receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 1.3-3.5 cm diam. when dry, sometimes short-stipitate, glabrous or brownish puberulous to pubescent, yellowish (or pinkish) at maturity, apex convex (and submammillate), ostiole 2-3 mm diam., slightly prominent (to sunken), open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts, unequal, not (or slightly) imbricate, thick, often hairy, the space left open by the upper ostiolar bracts usually filled with lower ostiolar bracts; wall smooth or (except for the apical part) slightly (or ± strongly) shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish to pinkish. Ovary partly red.
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