Shrub or tree up to 7 m tall, often hemi-epiphytic or lianescent. Branchlets drying brown to yellowish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, rather densely (to sparsely) (dark) brown hirtellous to puberulous (to hispidulous), smooth (to scabridulous); internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina lanceolate, 10-30(-37) by 3-8(-14) cm, (almost) symmetric (except for the base), subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex (sub)caudate, acumen narrow, base inequilateral, one side decurrent down to near the base of the petiole and auricled, the auricle (partly) covering the petiole or also part of the leafy twig and often with flabellate venation, the other side rounded to subcordate, margin denticulate to entire, flat; upper surface hirtellous to puberulous at least on the lower or basal part of the midrib and the basal lateral veins, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface rather densely to sparsely puberulous to subhirtellous or to (sparsely) hispidulous on the main (and smaller) veins, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins (5-)8-12 pairs, the basal pair mostly somewhat different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins (ascending) mostly unbranched, the lower ones not distinctly loop-connected, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axil of one of the basal lateral veins and (usually) smaller ones in the axils of one or more other lateral veins; petiole 0.2-0.5 cm long, puberulous to hirtellous, the epidermis ± flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, (0.5-)1-1.8 cm long, appressed-puberulous, ciliolate, or glabrous, striate, subpersistent (or caducous). Figs ramiflorous to cauliflorous, clustered on large up to 1 cm high tubercles, down to the base of the trunk; peduncle (0.5-)1.5-2(-3) cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, at the base of the peduncle, c. 0.2 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, yellow to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly sunken, surrounded by a (very) low rim; internal hairs sparse and minute. Tepals whitish or dark red, glabrous or minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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