Tree up to 18 m tall; latex white to yellow. Leafy twigs 2-3.5 mm thick, glabrous; internodes hollow; periderm ± flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic, (7-)10-21(-28) by (3-)5.5-10(-14) cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous, apex (abruptly) acuminate, base subcuneate to subattenuate, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface glabrous or sparsely minutely appressed-puberulous, glabrescent; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins (8-)10-13 pairs, often furcate far from the margin, the basal pairs ± to hardly distinct, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform (with 6-9 intercostals); waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, ± conspicuous; petiole 2-6.5(-11) cm long, glabrous; stipules 1.2-2.7 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, or more often 3-6 together on short spurs in the leaf axils and/or below the leaves (to ramiflorous?); peduncle 0.2-0.6 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate or ± scattered, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, sparsely puberulous, glabrescent, with or without lateral bracts, greenish at maturity, apex flat to ± convex, ostiole 0.2-0.3 mm diam., ± umbonate; internal hairs abundant, white to brownish.
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