Treelet up to 5 m tall. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, terete, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to (sub)obovate, 4-7.5 by 1.8-3.8 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly (sub)acuminate to obtuse, base cuneate, margin entire, (almost) flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, the basal pair distinct, short, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the lateral veins above the basal ones; petiole 0.6-1.8 cm long, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.7-1.2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, c. 1 mm long, persistent, glabrous; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, 0.6-0.9 cm long stipitate, glabrous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., almost flat; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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