Tree up to 10 m tall. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, ± sparsely whitish hispidulous, scabrous; internodes hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina obliquely rhombic, 3-13 by 2-5.5 cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acute, base slight-ly inequilateral, cuneate to obtuse, margin with (1 or) 2 blunt angles or lobes; upper surface hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface whitish hispidulous, mainly on the veins, scabrous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 3 or 4 (or 5) pairs, the basal pair running more or less closely to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched or faintly branched, the other lateral veins departing the midrib at angles of about 90°, mostly furcate, tertiary venation laxly reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, whitish hispidulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.2-0.3 cm long, sparsely hispidulous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, or cauliflorous; peduncle 1-3 cm long, broadening towards the apex; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, c. 1 mm long; receptacle obovoid, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, the surface ± warty, rather densely puberulous to subhispidulous and scabridulous to smooth or coarsely hispidulous with hairs with swollen bases, with several swollen lateral bracts, scattered or concentrated in the upper part of the receptacle, sometimes developing into irregular up to 3 mm long processes, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to flat, ostiole c. 5 mm diam., surrounded by swollen apical bracts; internal hairs sparse. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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