Sparingly branched shrub or treelet up to 4 m tall. Leafy twigs 6-10 mm thick, pale to dark brown hirsute to (sub)villous, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to subobovate to lanceolate, 14-30 by 4-11 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate, margin dentate to denticulate; upper surface brown pilose to subhirsute to subhispid, ± scabrous, lower surface brown to whitish pilose to subhirsute on the veins, scabridulous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, most of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal pair and some other lateral veins and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 1-2.5 cm long, pale to dark brown subhirsute to subvillous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 2-4 cm long, brown to whitish strigose to subhirsute along the keel, towards the margin white appressed-puberulous to glabrous, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 5-15 mm long; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, brown strigose to subhirsute, without lateral bracts, at maturity yellow, apex slightly convex, ostiole c. 5 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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