Treelet up to 8 m tall, sparingly branched. Leafy twigs 7-12 mm thick, brown hirtellous to subtomentose; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina elliptic to obovate, 25-45 by 12-15 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (shortly) acuminate, base subcordate to subcuneate, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface hirtellous to puberulous on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 7-16 pairs, some of them furcate far from the margin, the basal pair not or hardly distinct, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins and in the furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 2-6 cm long, hirtellous to strigose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 3-5 cm long, ovate, apiculate, glabrous, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3 or 4, 8-14 mm long, coriaceous; receptacle depressed-globose, 2-2.3 cm diam. when dry, brown (sub)tomentose, with some lateral bracts, purplish (?) at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 5 mm diam., surrounded by ‘a crown’ of apical bracts; internal hairs abundant to sparse, whitish.
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