Tree up to 32 m tall, with buttresses up to 1 m high. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, solid, terete, minutely white appressed-puberulous to glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate (to oblanceolate), 6-20 by 3-8.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly (sub)acuminate to obtuse (to subacute), base cuneate to truncate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, ± shining to dull when dry, lower surface (very) sparsely appressed-puberulous on the midrib to glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 7-10 or 10-14 pairs, the basal pair distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.7-)1-2.5 cm long, appressed-puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (1.3-)2-7.5 cm long, densely white appressed-puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs, (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long, persistent, densely appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-1.4 cm diam. when dry, 0.2-1.2 cm long stipitate, sparsely white puberulous to glabrous, reddish at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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