Tree up to 45 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong (to subovate), 6-18 by 2-8 cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, base cuneate to rounded; both surfaces glabrous; midrib slightly prominent to flat above, lateral veins 7-12 pairs, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, up to 1/20-1/10 the length of the lamina, unbranched, often shorter than the other lateral veins and often not opposite, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate, ± prominent beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1-2.5(-3) cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules (0.5-)1-2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 0.5-2.5 mm long, unequal in shape and size, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-1 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, yellow to orange (to purplish red) at maturity, apex convex to submammillate, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., slightly prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall smooth and to slightly shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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