Tree up to 15(-40) m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-6 mm thick, ± angular, sparsely brownish set(ul)ose with irritant hairs, glabrescent; periderm persistent, sometimes flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong to subobovate, 7-15 by 2.5-8 cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, base subcordate to rounded (to cuneate), margin ciliolate; upper surface glabrous or minutely puberulous on the midrib, lower surface glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulous on the midrib; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 9-12 pairs, the basal pair ± distinct, up to 1/10-1/6 the length of the lamina, (sparsely and/or faintly) branched or unbranched, 1 or 2 (or 3) pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, ± prominent beneath; waxy gland up to 1 cm from the base of the midrib; petiole 1-3 cm long, 2-3 mm thick, glabrous or sparsely puberulous or setulose, drying blackish (or brown), sometimes with a waxy layer; stipules (0.5-)1-2 cm long, brown strigose to subsericeous, caducous, often with a distinct median part. Figs axillary, in pairs (or solitary), initially enclosed up to 1.2 cm long calyptrate bud covers, sessile; basal bracts 3, 2-8(-12) mm long, subequal to unequal, semicircular (to ovate), with a rounded apex, imbricate or connate at the base, glabrous, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to cylindrical or to subovoid, 1-2 cm diam. and up to 4 cm long when dry, sparsely to densely brownish setose to strigose with irritant hairs (or also brown puberulous), yellow to orange-red at maturity, apex convex to protracted, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., prominent, open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts subequal, not fully imbricate, ± strongly thickened; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals pinkish (to whitish?). Ovary partly red(dish).
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