Tree, large, hemi-epiphytic. Branches drying brown. Leafy twigs 5-8 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic, 10-21 by 5-12.5 cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, base rounded to cuneate; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib impressed above, lateral veins 8-12 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to 1/8-1/3 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation partly parallel to the lateral veins to reticulate, ± prominent; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 2.5-5.5 cm long, 4-5 mm thick, glabrous, drying brown; stipules (1.5-)2-4 cm long, glabrous, caducous sometimes with a distinct median part. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile, calyptrate bud covers absent (?); basal bracts 3, 8-10 mm long, ± unequal, ovate with an obtuse apex, (1 or) 2 with a distinct median part or keeled, glabrous, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to obovoid, 1.5-2.5 cm diam. and 2.5-3 cm long when dry, glabrous, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex to submammillate, ostiole c. 5 mm diam., prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall ± shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Ovary red (?).
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