Tree, large. Branchlets drying (dark) brown. Leafy twigs 5-9 mm thick, solid, ± angular, sparsely appressed-puberulous. Leaves in (lax) spirals; lamina elliptic to oblong, 13-20 by 8-12 cm, almost symmetric at the base, coriaceous, apex short-acuminate to obtuse, base slightly inequilateral, narrowly subcuneate to subtruncate, margin entire, flat to slightly revolute; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface brownish (sparsely) appressed-puberulous on the midrib, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib flat and lateral and smaller veins slightly prominent and conspicuous above, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate (to subscalariform), the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-2 cm long, densely brown(ish) appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary (?); peduncle c. 1.2 cm long; basal bracts 2, scattered on the peduncle, c. 1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose (or ellipsoid?), 2.5-3 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, (sub)glabrous, greenish (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., slightly prominent; wall very thick (0.9-1.3 cm when dry); internal hairs absent. Tepals red, glabrous. Stamens 2 (or 3).
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