Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, brown(ish) to whitish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous; lamina (ob)lanceolate to linear, 5-14 by 0.7-2 cm, slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin faintly denticulate to subentire; upper surface sparsely strigillose to subglabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely to rather densely brown(ish) or whitish strigillose on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-10 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands absent; petiole 0.3-0.5 cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1-1.6 cm long, (sparsely) brownish to whitish strigillose to subsericeous, subpersistent. Figs flagelliflorous on (at least) up to 90 cm long stolons, sometimes also axillary and solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 3-5 mm long; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, brown strigillose, non-stipitate, pronouncedly 5-ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to slightly convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 ± erect apical bracts; internal hairs absent or sparse.
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