Tree up to 10 m tall or shrub. Branchlets often drying red-brown. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, ± densely pale brown to yellowish puberulous to subtomentose to subvelutinous or densely to sparsely yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, smooth or scabridulous; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to elliptic (to lanceolate), (3-)10-20(-26) by (1-)2-7(-9) cm, mostly slightly asymmetric to almost symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base cuneate to rounded, margin irregularly crenate-dent(icul)ate to subentire, ± revolute; upper surface sparsely strigillose on the midrib to glabrous, smooth, lower surface ± densely whitish puberulous to subtomentose or densely to sparsely yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; tertiary and smaller veins prominent beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-8 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/6-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, densely whitish hirtellous to subtomentose or densely to sparsely yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-1 cm long, (appressed-)puberulous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or paired, or clustered on short-shoots; peduncle 0.1-0.3 cm long; peduncular bracts (2 or) 3, scattered, 2 (sub)opposite or 3 verticillate, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.5-1 cm diam. when dry, brownish to yellowish puberulous to subtomentose, smooth, sometimes with a lateral bract, pink to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-2 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant, brownish, relatively long. Tepals red, hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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