Shrub or tree up to 8 m. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brown appressed-puberulous to strigillose; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to subovate, 4-14 by 1.5-5 cm, chartaceous to coriaceous, apex acuminate to acute, base obtuse to subcuneate, margin entire (or sublobate); upper surface sparsely strigillose, more densely and sometimes with ± patent hairs on the midrib, smooth or ± scabrous, lower surface brown(ish) strigillose of the main veins or also minutely puberulous on the smaller veins; cystoliths absent; lateral veins 4-8 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or absent; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm long, brown strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.4-0.7 cm long, pale brown subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs; peduncle 0.2-0.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1-1.5 mm long, appressed-puberulous; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sometimes up to 0.1 cm long stipitate, sparsely to densely appressed-puberulous, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs abundant.
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