Shrub up to 5 m tall, with internodes distinctly different in length and leaves ± tufted at the end of branches. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, white hirtellous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subobovate to subpandurate (to oblanceolate), (3-)6-21 by (1-)2-6 cm, subcoriaceous, rigid, apex acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to narrowly subcordate, margin entire; upper surface brownish to whitish hispidulous to hirtellous to strigillose, scabrous to scabridulous, lower surface hirtellous to hispid in the veins, scabrous to scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 4-7(-11) pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/3-2/3 the length of the lamina, tertiary venation scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-2.5 cm long, white to brownish hirtellous to puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.6-1.2 cm long, ciliolate, very sparsely white appressed-puberulous, subpersistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1-2 mm long, glabrous or hispidulous; receptacle subglobose, 1-1.2 cm diam. when dry, whitish to brownish hirtellous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., flat; internal hairs sparse, minute.
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