Tree up to 15 m, hemi-epiphytic (?) or terrestrial (?). Branches drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, ± angular to subterete, glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic, 4-10(-13) by 1.5-5(-5.5) cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, margin flat; both surfaces glabrous; midrib (almost) flat, lateral veins 7-13 pairs, the basal pair ± to hardly distinct, up to 1/10-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation parallel to the lateral veins; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.7-1.5(-2.5) cm long, 1-2 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely and minutely white puberulous, drying blackish, caducous, often involute when dry. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 2-3 mm long, subequal, free, basally or entirely fused (forming a collar), glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.7 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall smooth when dry; internal hairs absent or present (few). Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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