Tree up to 40 m tall, with buttresses up to 2.5 m high or with small stilt-roots. Branchlets drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 2-6 mm thick, solid (or hollow), slightly angular to ± compressed to subterete, yellowish to brownish appressed-puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged (to subdistichous); lamina oblong to subobovate, 4-19 by 1.5-8.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to subattenuate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface whitish to yellowish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous on the midrib, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins (5-)8-10 pairs, the basal pair ± distinct, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the (main) basal lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-2 cm long, appressed-puberulous, the epidermis persistent or flaking off; stipules (1-)2-4 cm long, yellowish to brownish subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary (or in pairs), (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, (0.6-)1-1.5(-2?) cm diam. when dry, 1.5-3 cm diam. when fresh, 0-1 cm long stipitate, whitish appressed-puberulous, at maturity yellow to red, sometimes with a lateral bract, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., slightly prominent; wall thick; internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 1 (or 2).
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