Treelet up to 6 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, dark brown (sub)hirsute, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged to (sub)opposite; lamina oblong to subobovate or to elliptic, 12-28 by 5-9 cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate at the broad side, cuneate to obtuse (to rounded) at the narrow side, margin (towards the apex) denticulate; upper surface strigillose to subhispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown subhirsute to hirtellous on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (3-)6-10 pairs, none of them, but in larger leaves sometimes one or some furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, brown subhirsute to hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, brown strigose to hirtellous, partly whitish strigillose to appressed-puberulous, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous, clustered on short, ± tuberculate branchlets on main branches and the trunk; peduncle 0.5-1 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-3 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to depressed-globose, 1.3-1.8 cm diam. when dry, often 1-2 mm long stipitate, glabrous, 10-ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 short apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, brown.
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