Tree up to 20 m tall, monoecious. Leafy twigs 2.5-5 mm thick, glabrous, hollow; periderm of older parts ± flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong, 4-16 by 1.5-8.5 cm, symmetric or slightly asymmetric, coriaceous, apex subacute to subacuminate, base cuneate, margin entire, often ± revolute towards the base; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 4-8(-10) pairs, basal pair straight or tending to run parallel to the margin, 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-6 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-2(-3) cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs or cauliflorous on stout branched or unbranched up to 10 cm long branchlets on the older wood; peduncle 0.3-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, 1.5-3 mm long, verticillate or ± scattered, chartaceous, ciliolate, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 1-2 cm diam. when dry, 2-3.5 cm diam. when fresh, up to 0.3 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, glabrous, without lateral bracts, red(dish) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., prominent (umbonate); internal hairs absent.
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