Tree up to c. 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial, sometimes a climber. Branches drying yellowish to brown. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous or sparsely brownish to whitish puberulous (mainly on the scars of the stipules). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or to lanceolate), 5-16(-23) by 1.2-6.5(-8.5) cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded; upper surface glabrous, lower surface ± sparsely brownish puberulous laterally on the midrib, mainly (or only) in the axils of the lateral veins (barbate) or also on the basal parts of the lateral veins, glabrescent; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly prominent to flat or slightly impressed towards the base, lateral veins 7-12 pairs, the basal pair slightly to hardly distinct, up to 1/20-1/10(-1/6) the length of the lamina, unbranched, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate, slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1-4 cm long, 1-2 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 1-2(-5) cm long, brownish puberulous to subsericeous or glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs (or solitary); peduncle (0.5-)1-3.5 cm long, the apex broadened into a rim; basal bracts 3, inserted inside the rim of the peduncle, 2-3(-5) mm long, subequal, caducous at maturity; receptacle (sub)ovoid, 1.2-2 cm diam. and up to 3 cm long when dry, sometimes, shortly stipitate, glabrous, yellowish at maturity, apex convex, (sub)mammillate and 2-or 3-lobed (by prominent upper ostiolar bracts), ostiole 2-3 mm diam., prominent, open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts unequal, slightly or not imbricate, thick; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals red to pinkish. Ovary partly reddish.
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