Tree, c. 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, sparsely dark brown strigillose, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent; nodes prominent by scars of the leaves and lenticels. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina oblong, 5-23 by 2-8.5 cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base subcuneate to subtruncate, margin coarsely crenate-dentate; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely dark brown to whitish strigillose, initially also whitish villose on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, unbranched, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform; waxy glands small, in the axils of lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina, or absent; petiole (1-)1.5-4.5 cm long, sparsely dark brown to whitish strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.8-1.2 cm long, whitish to brownish strigillose, caducous. Figs sometimes axillary, solitary, mostly cauliflorous on up to 40 cm long slender branchlets on the older wood; figs sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-2.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose, c. 3 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.8 cm long stipitate, glabrous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex concave to flat, ostiole c. 5 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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