Tree up to 6 m tall. Leafy twigs 2.5-4 mm thick, glabrous or strigillose on the nodes, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow (?); periderm flaking, persistent. Leaves laxly spirally arranged to (sub)distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 5-13-16 by 2.5-6 cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to cuneate, margin crenate-denticulate; upper surface sparsely brownish strigillose, smooth, lower surface rather sparsely brownish strigillose on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4 or) 5 or 6 pairs, in the middle part of the lamina often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 1.5-3 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous, caducous (or subpersistent?). Figs cauliflorous on up to c. 1 m long branched leafless branchlets (with up to 10 cm long internodes and up to 1.5 cm long persistent stipules) on the trunk; peduncle 0.3-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1.5-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.5 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, pulverulent, non-stipitate, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex slightly convex to flat, ostiole 2.5-3 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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