Tree up to 40 m tall, with buttresses. Branchlets drying blackish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, glabrous, (almost) smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic (to suborbicular), 7-17 by 4.5-10 cm, ± asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex subacute, base ± inequilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin subentire, slightly revolute; upper surface sparsely and minutely puberulous at the base (or lower part) of the midrib, smooth, lower surface glabrous (almost); cystoliths on both sides; the base (or lower part) of the midrib impressed, lateral veins 6-12 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, these and mostly also other lateral veins branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform, slightly prominent but the smaller to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 1.5-1.8 cm long, almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely and minutely puberulous in and along the adaxial groove of the petiole, epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.4 cm long, ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.4-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 3, verticillate (subtending the receptacle or on the basal part of the receptacle), 0.5-1.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, c. 1 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, punctate, smooth, without lateral bracts, yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs rather abundant. Tepals pale red, glabrous. Styles glabrous. Fruits tuberculate.
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