Shrub, c. 1.5 m tall, sparingly branched. Leafy twigs 5-8 mm thick, dark brown strigose, without (?) nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off below the leaves. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina subobovate to oblanceolate, 6-23 by 3-8 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex shortly acuminate, base (sub)cordate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface sparsely strigillose, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface brown strigillose to appressed-puberulous on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 5-10 pairs, some or none of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of (one of) the basal lateral veins or small ones also in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 0.4-1.8 cm long, brown strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-3.5 cm long, brown strigillose, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, clustered on up to 0.5 cm long spurs, ± concealed by the stipules, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, subverticillate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid, 0.7-0.9 cm diam. when dry, brown strigillose, without lateral bracts, slightly ribbed, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., including 5 thickened apical bracts, umbonate; internal hairs absent.
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