Tree up to c. 20 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or a climber (?). Branches drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 1-2(-2.5) mm thick, ± angular, glabrous (or minutely white puberulous); periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic or to subovate (or to lanceolate), 3-9 by 1-3.5 cm, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate (or to obtuse), base cuneate to rounded, margin flat; both surfaces glabrous; midrib (at least the lower part) ± impressed above, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to (1/4-)1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, without smaller lateral veins below the (main) pair, tertiary partly parallel to the lateral veins to reticulate, slightly prominent beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1(-1.3) cm long, 1-1.5(-2) mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous (or minutely white puberulous), caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 1.5-3 mm long, (sub)equal, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.3-0.6(-0.8) cm diam. when dry, glabrous, white to pink to purplish at maturity, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., (almost) flat, open, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts not or partly imbricate; wall ± shrivelled to smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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