Tree up to 20 m tall, branches spreading and twigs drooping. Branchlets drying grey to greenish. Leafy twigs (1-)2-3 mm thick, glabrous, smooth, thick, finely ribbed; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to subovate, 9-20(-35) by 2.5-8(-14) cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex caudate, base (almost) equilateral, cuneate (to rounded), margin dentate (to sublobate), flat or ± revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface very sparsely hispidulous, scabridulous to smooth; cystoliths on both sides, sparse above; midrib prominent above, lateral veins 8-10(-13) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/8 the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole (0.3-)1-2 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis caducous; stipules amplexicaul, 1-1.5 cm long, finely striate, glabrous, caducous, the terminal bud stiff and subaculeate. Figs cauliflorous, on clusters of up to 4 cm long leafless branchlets with short internodes on the trunk; peduncle 1-2.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 3 or 4, scattered, c. 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, very sparsely minutely puberulous to hispidulous, smooth, with 1-6 lateral bracts, 1-2 mm long, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2.5-3 mm diam., prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish or reddish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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