Tree up to 8 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-8 mm thick, glabrous, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to subovate, 18-30 by 13-20 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base cordate, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface (sub)glabrous, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 5-14 cm long, (sub)glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 2.2-3 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on stout branched up to c. 3 cm long branchlets, with short internodes and prominent scars and terminally subpersistent stipules, on the lower part of the trunk (?); peduncle 0.7-1.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-3 mm long, caducous; receptacle subpyriform to subglobose, 1.5-2 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.5 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, without lateral bracts, (faintly) ribbed, colour at maturity unknown, apex slightly convex to flat, ostiole c. 5 mm diam., including 5 incurved stiff apical bracts, prominent; internal hairs sparse, pale brown.
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