Habit unknown. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 4-5 mm thick, white puberulous to subtomentose, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 14-47 by 8-17 cm, ± asymmetric to almost symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base ± inequilateral, cordate, the lobes often concealing the petiole, margin sparsely and faintly dentate towards the apex to subentire, ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely hispidulous, scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 5-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/5-1/4 the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins furcate and loop-connected far from the margin, tertiary venation laxly (sub)scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axil of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, sparsely hispidulous, the epidermis persistent (?); stipule scars semi-amplexicaul; stipules not seen. Figs (ramiflorous); peduncle 0.4-0.7 cm long; peduncular bracts c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., surrounded by low rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish (or pinkish), minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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