Tree up to 20 m tall. Branchlets drying (dark) brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, solid, ± angular, brown appressed-puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic or to lanceolate, (3-)5-18 by (1-)2.5-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate to rounded, base obtuse to subattenuate, margin entire, ± revolute to flat; upper surface sparsely appressed-puberulous to subtomentose, mainly on the midrib, glabrescent, ± shining when dry, lower surface brown appressed-puberulous to subsericeous to subtomentose, mainly on the main veins, smooth; midrib almost flat to slightly impressed above, lateral veins 5-15 pairs, ± impressed above, loop-connected far from the margin, the basal pair ± distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.1-)0.4-1 cm long, brown appressed-puberulous to subtomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.8-1 cm long, brown appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 cm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, substipitate, (sparsely) brownish puberulous to subtomentose, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., slightly sunken to flat and surrounded by a low rim or slightly prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals (dark) red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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