Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, ribbed; internodes solid; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina lanceolate (to oblong), (2.5-)7-15 by (0.5-) 1.5-4 cm, ± asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base rounded at one side, cuneate at the other, margin entire; upper surface whitish to yellowish sericeous, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface yellowish to brown subsericeous to subhirsute or partly tomentose on the veins, also minute brown pluricellular trichomes; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins (7-)10-17 pairs, the basal pair not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins at the narrow side of the lamina base; petiole 0.3-1(-1.5) cm long, subhirtellous to strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-2 cm long, (partly) yellow to brownish (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 1-1.5(-2.1) cm long; basal bracts 3, c. 1.5 mm long, verticillate or ± scattered; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.4 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, subtomentose, with up to 5 lateral bracts or without, at maturity yellowish, apex ± crateriform, ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., surrounded by 5 erect, ± cushion-shaped apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, brownish.
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