Sparingly branched shrub. Leafy twigs 4-8 mm thick, dark brown strigose, with nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves (sub)opposite or spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina subobovate to oblanceolate, 12-37 by 4-18 cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base subcordate-auriculate, margin dent(icul)ate; upper surface sparsely strigillose, glabrescent, smooth, lower surface brown to whitish strigose to strigillose, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, some of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina or absent; petiole 1-3(-7) cm long, brown strigose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-4 cm long, brown strigose, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs, ± concealed by the stipules, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, subverticillate, 2.5-4 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1.5-2 cm diam. when dry, brown strigillose, without lateral bracts, slightly ribbed, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., umbonate; internal hairs absent.
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