Tree up to 12 m tall. Leafy twigs 2.5-4 mm thick, whitish puberulous and also white (sub)sericeous; internodes solid or hollow; periderm flaking off (or only below the leaves). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to subpanduriform or to lanceolate, (5-)9-25 by (2-)3.5-10 cm, slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded and emarginate, margin entire, towards the base often slightly revolute; upper surface sparsely pilose, soon glabrous, smooth, lower surface (rather) sparsely whitish puberulous to subtomentose on the veins, on the main veins also (sub)sericeous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 9-13 pairs, mostly one or some of them furcate far from the margin, the lower ones not distinctly loop-connected, the basal pair slightly distinct, tertiary venation loosely scalariform, ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins (conspicuous or inconspicuous) and often also smaller ones in furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 0.7-2(-4) cm long, whitish puberulous and also (sub)sericeous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.7 cm long, sparsely sericeous, often only at the base or on the keel, or only ciliolate on the margin, caducous or subpersistent. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs, or cauliflorous on up to 15 cm long, branched leafless branchlets down to the base of the trunk; peduncle 0.1-0.7 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.6-1.2 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.1 cm long stipitate, (rather) sparsely whitish puberulous to subtomentose to subglabrous, without lateral bracts, reddish green or brownish (?) at maturity, apex ± convex to flat with short ribs towards the ostiole, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., ± umbonate; internal hairs sparse, yellowish or whitish.
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