Tree up to 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, densely whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous to dark to pale brown hirtellous, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous, sometimes subopposite; lamina oblong to elliptic to (sub)obovate, (4-)7-23 by (2-)2.5-10.5 cm, usually ± asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate (to obtuse), margin subentire to denticulate; upper surface (sub)glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely to rather densely brown(ish) to whitish strigillose or (partly) puberulous to subhirtellous on the (main) veins, smooth, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins 4-8 pairs, the pairs in the middle part of the lamina often branched, tertiary venation (± loosely) scalariform; waxy glands often absent, sometimes present in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, ± densely whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, the epidermis mostly flaking off; stipules 0.6-1.8 cm long, brown(ish) to whitish strigillose to subsericeous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on up to 1 m long slender branches on the trunk or on stolons; peduncle 0.4-2.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1.5-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-1 cm diam. when dry, densely (dark) brown appressed-or ± patent-puberulous, non-stipitate (or up to 0.2 cm long stipitate), not or ± faintly ribbed, without (or with 1 or 2) lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex to flat (or ± concave), ostiole 2-3 mm diam., mostly ± prominent, surrounded by 5 erect apical bracts; internal hairs abundant to rather sparse, brown(ish), long(er than the flowers).
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