Tree up to c. 30 m tall. Leafy twigs 10-12 mm thick, minutely puberulous and brown setose (with irritating hairs), scabrous; periderm persistent. Lamina cordiform, c. 20-25 by 15-18, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base deeply cordate, margin denticulate; upper surface hirtellous, smooth, lower surface densely brownish subhirsute to hirtellous to subvelutinous on the veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 10-16 cm long, hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules c. 2.5 cm long, hirtellous, persistent. Figs axillary (?); peduncle 2-4 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1.5-2 cm long, strigillose; receptacle ellipsoid, 1.3-1.8 cm diam. when dry, substipitate, puberulous and brown setulose (with irritating hairs), green (?) at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., surrounded by short apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, yellowish.
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