Shrub or tree up to 6 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, sparsely and minutely whitish puberulous to glabrous, with waxy nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged to subopposite; lamina linear-oblanceolate, 7-22 by 1-2.2 cm, almost symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate to acute, base cuneate, margin (sub)entire; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-13 pairs, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.7-2 cm long, minutely puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary and solitary or cauliflorous on up to 1 cm long spurs on the main branches; peduncle 0.2-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle sub-globose to ellipsoid, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.2 cm long stipitate, glabrous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex concave, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs absent.
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