Treelet up to 5 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, dark brown hirtellous, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged to (sub)opposite; lamina oblong to subobovate to oblanceolate, 5-16 by 1.8-5.5 cm, slightly asymmetric to symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse (to rounded), margin (sub)entire; upper surface densely whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, the midrib brown hirtellous, (almost) smooth, lower surface brown hirtellous to strigillose on the main veins, on the smaller veins to white appressed-puberulous, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-10 pairs, none of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 1-2 cm long, brown hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules (1-)1.5-2.5 cm long, brown strigose to strigillose to appressed-puberulous, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous clustered on short (up to 2 cm long) woody tubercles or up to 2 cm long branched branchlets with (very) short internodes, on the older wood; peduncle 0.8-1.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, (sub)verticillate (or scattered), 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to subpyriform to depressed-globose, 1-2.5 cm diam. when dry, often 1-2 mm long stipitate, brown puberulous, conspicuously lenticellate, 5-15-ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to ± concave, ostiole 3-5 mm diam., ± depressed, surrounded by 5 very short apical bracts; internal hairs sparse, brown.
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