Shrub or tree up to 6 m tall, or liana. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, densely brownish tomentose, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong (to lanceolate), 9-33 by 3-12 cm, (almost) symmetric to slightly asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base usually (almost) equilateral, (narrowly) subcordate to cuneate, margin entire or sparsely and coarsely dentate, often ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, but hairy at the base(s) of the midrib (and the basal lateral veins), smooth, lower surface densely (sub)tomentose on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed above; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, if not running close to the margin of the lamina then branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate, tertiary venation laxly scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, densely brownish tomentose, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 1-1.5 cm long, brown subhirtellous, caducous or subpersistent. Figs axillary (or just below the leaves), solitary, in pairs, or clustered on short spurs; sessile or with a peduncle up to 1 cm long; peduncular bracts 1-3, scattered, mostly near the base, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.6-1 cm diam. when dry, densely brownish (sub)tomentose, smooth, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to ± umbonate, ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., ± sunken, surrounded by a lobed rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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