Sparingly branched shrub or treelet up to 3 m tall. Leafy twigs 7-10 mm thick, brown setose-hirsute, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina pandurate, 25-50 by 10-22 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin ciliate with brown hairs, coarsely dentate, towards the apex sublobate; upper surface whitish strigose, ± scabrous, lower surface whitish hirtellous and on the (main) veins also subsetose-hirsute, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, most of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal pair and of some other lateral veins and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, brown subhirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 3-7.5 cm long, subglabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous and on the keel and the apex brown subsetose-hirsute, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, solitary (?), sessile; basal bracts 3, subverticillate, 8-10(-15?) mm long; receptacle subglobose, when dry 1.5-2.5 cm diam., brown hirsute, glabrescent, without lateral bracts, yellow at maturity, apex slightly convex, ostiole c. 5 mm diam., surrounded by 2 or 3 rows of ± erect apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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