Treelet up to 1 m tall. Leafy twigs 8-10 mm thick, brown hirsute, without nodal glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina lanceolate, c. 40 by 10 cm, symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base subcordate, margin ciliate and dentate; upper surface brownish pilose to hirtellous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins c. 10 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands absent (?); petiole c. 1 cm long, brown hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 4-6 cm long, glabrous, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, solitary, subsessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 7-9 mm long; receptacle subglobose to ovoid, c. 1.3 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, with up to 5 mm long lateral bracts in the upper part, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole c. 0.6 cm diam., surrounded by 2 or 3 rows of apical bracts; internal hairs absent.
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