Treelet up to 5 m or climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to purplish. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, densely brown puberulous to subhirtellous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong (to elliptic), 7-20 by 2-6 cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex caudate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to obtuse, margin entire or on one or both sides irregularly coarsely dentate to sublobate, often ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, smooth, mostly shiny, lower surface ± densely puberulous to subtomentose on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib impressed above; lateral veins 4-7 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin of the lamina, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate, tertiary venation laxly (sub)scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.3-0.6 cm long, densely brown puberulous to subtomentose, epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.8 cm long, brown puberulous to substrigillose, striate, subpersistent. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, most at the base, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.5 cm diam. when dry, ± densely hispidulous, often scabridulous, without lateral bracts, pink to red at maturity, apex umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., sunken, surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish to pinkish (pale brown when dry), glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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