Tree up to 18 m tall. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 6-12 mm thick, solid, ± angular, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to elliptic, 20-40 by 15-28 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex obtuse, base rounded to cordate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly impressed to almost flat above, lateral veins 10-15 pairs, the basal pair not distinct, tertiary venation loosely scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 3-8 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 4-10 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 5-10 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, 2-3 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate, glabrous, green (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens (1 or) 2.
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