Shrub c. 1 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, dark brown hirtellous (to strigillose), conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong, 6-14 by 3-5.5 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded, margin denticulate; upper surface hirtellous to subhispidulous, scabrous, lower surface (dark) brown hirtellous to strig(ill)ose, ± scabrous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, other lateral veins sometimes branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands absent; petiole 1-5.5 cm long, usually distinctly different in length on the same twig, (dark) brown hirtellous, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, (0.5-)1-1.8 cm long, brown to whitish strigillose, largely on and along the midrib, caducous or subpersistent. Figs just below the leaves, solitary (or also cauliflorous?); peduncle 0.8-1.7 cm long; peduncular bracts, mostly 3 or 4, ± scattered, 1-5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1.3-1.8 cm diam. when dry, brown setulose (with the hairs irritant?), with numerous up to 15 mm long, lanceolate and coriaceous lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of up to 4 mm long apical bracts, pointing upwards; internal hairs abundant. Tepals dark red, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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