Shrub, tree or climber, terrestrial or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying pale brown to yellowish. Leafy twigs 1.5-5(-6) mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong elliptic, (4-)10-22(-30) by (1.5-)4-9(-12) cm, (almost) symmetric, coriaceous, apex abruptly acuminate, base slightly inequilateral, cuneate to obtuse, margin entire; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly prominent to flat above; lateral veins (6-)9-11(-14) pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/6-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, other lateral veins unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins or only in one of them; petiole 0.8-1.8 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 1-2.8 cm long, glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous or only ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.4-0.6 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, at the base of the peduncle, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.4-0.6 cm diam. when dry, subglabrous or sparsely hispidulous, smooth or scabridulous, without lateral bracts, yellowish at maturity, apex convex or umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a low lobed rim; internal hairs minute, abundant. Tepals whitish, ciliolate. Styles glabrous.
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