Shrub or tree up to 8 m tall. Branchlets often drying red-brown. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, whitish to yellowish puberulous to hirtellous, smooth; internodes hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina (sub)ovate to elliptic to oblong, 12-26(-36) by 6-12(-17) cm, strongly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base inequilateral, the broad side cordate with the lobe covering the petiole, the narrow side subcordate to subcuneate, margin irregularly crenate-denticulate to subentire; upper surface hispidulous, on the main veins to puberulous, scabrous, lower surface whitish puberulous to hirtellous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, at the broad side of the lamina branched, sometimes also some other lateral veins at that side branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins and on the broad side of the lamina also in the axils of the lateral veins below the major basal one; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, puberulous to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.7-1 cm long, puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary, or ramiflorous to cauliflorous, on up to 12 cm long leafless branchlets with short internodes; peduncle 0.4-1 cm long; peduncular bracts 1 or 2, scattered, c. 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, 1-1.5 cm diam. when fresh, brownish to whitish puberulous to subhispidulous, smooth, mostly with few lateral bracts, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant, brownish. Tepals red to whitish, glabrous or hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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