Tree up to 10 m tall. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, solid, ± angular, brown velutinous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina lanceolate, 12-24 by 3.5-9 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, flat to revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous, ± shining when dry, lower surface densely to sparsely brown(ish) subsericeous to subvillous to subtomentose on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib impressed to flat above, lateral veins 10-13(-15) pairs, the basal pairs ± distinct, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-3.5 cm long, brown (sub)velutinous, the epidermis flaking off (not soon); stipules 1-2.5 cm long, brown sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.2-1 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate or scattered on the peduncle, 1.5-3 mm long, caducous (or subpersistent?); receptacle subglobose, 1.3-2 cm diam. when dry, 0-0.2 cm long stipitate, brownish subtomentose, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs present, rather sparse, or absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 1 (or 2).
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