Tree up to 45 m tall, with buttresses up to 2 m high. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid or hollow, subterete and ribbed, minutely whitish puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to lanceolate, (7-)10-20(-30) by (2.5-)5-8(-11) cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface sparsely appressed-puberulous to subsericeous on the midrib (and lateral veins), smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed above, lateral veins (8-)10-15(-20) pairs, often slightly impressed, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, tertiary venation loosely scalariform to reticulate, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-2(-3.5) cm long, appressed-puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-3 cm long, densely yellowish appressed-puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, sessile or up to 0.6 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts (2 or) 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long, persistent or caducous; receptacle subglobose, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2.5 cm diam. when fresh, 0.5-1.3 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, very whitish puberulous, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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