Tree up to c. 30 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying greyish to brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous (or sparsely and minutely whitish puberulous on the scars of the stipules); periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (to (sub)obovate), (3-)8-16 by (2-)3.5-7.5 cm, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate, the acumen obtuse, base obtuse to rounded and auriculate to cordulate (to subcordate); both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib almost flat but slightly impressed towards the base above, lateral veins 5-8 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, (sparsely and faintly) branched or unbranched, departing from the midrib well above the base of the lamina, 1-3 pairs of smaller basal lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1-2 cm long, c. 2 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish or brown; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5 cm long, glabrous (or partly sparsely and minutely white appressed-puberulous), caducous, often with a distinct median part. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 6-7 mm long, ± unequal, 1 (or 2) with a distinct median part, glabrous (or sparsely whitish puberulous), persistent; receptacle depressed-globose, 0.8-1 cm diam. when dry, (sub)glabrous, orange-brown at maturity, apex slightly convex, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., flat to slightly prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate, 2 visible and the third just; wall ± shrivelled to almost smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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