Tree up to 23 m tall. Branchlets drying (dark) red-brown, the periderm flaking off conspicuously. Leafy twigs 1.5-2 mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous, drying greenish; lamina oblong to elliptic, 6-14(-20) by 5-6(-8.5) cm, slightly asymmetric to almost symmetric, subcoriaceous, apex subacuminate to subacute, base almost equilateral, cuneate to obtuse (to rounded), margin (sub)entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, scabridulous to smooth, lower surface glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat at the base, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, if running close to the margin of the lamina then unbranched, if at some distance, then (faintly) branched, other lateral veins sometimes furcate, tertiary venation ± laxly scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole (0.7-)1-1.5 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.4 cm long, glabrous or ciliolate, caducous. Figs just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 2 subopposite or 3 verticillate, subtending the receptacle or not, c. 1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose to ellipsoid, 0.9-1.2 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, punctate, smooth, without lateral bracts, yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 1.5 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs abundant. Tepals dark to pale red, glabrous. Styles hairy or glabrous. Fruits ± tuberculate.
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