Tree up to 40 m tall, with buttresses up to 3 m. Branchlets drying (dark) brown. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, solid or hollow, ± angular, densely minutely brownish puberulous to tomentellous. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)ovate, 15-33 by 8-17 cm, ± asymmetric (to symmetric), coriaceous, apex acuminate to obtuse, base inequilateral (to equilateral), narrowly rounded (to truncate) to cuneate to subattenuate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface brownish (sparsely) appressed-puberulous on the midrib or also on the lateral veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly impressed to flat above, lateral veins (15-)18-22 pairs, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, minutely puberulous, the epidermis flaking off (sooner or later); stipules (1.5-)2-7 cm long, densely brown(ish) appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, subsessile or up to 1.2 cm long pedunculate (?); basal bracts 3, scattered on the peduncle (?), c. 2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose to ovoid, 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate (or stipitate?), densely brown puberulous, at maturity greenish (?), apex convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., prominent to flat; wall thick; internal hairs abundant. Pedicels hairy. Tepals pinkish, glabrous. Stamen 1 (?).
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