Treelet up to 5 m tall. Leafy twigs 8-12 mm thick, whitish strigillose, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to subovate, 30-42 by 16-21 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex subacuminate, base cordate, margin denticulate; upper surface strigillose to hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface (rather) densely whitish hirtellous to puberulous and on the main veins whitish to brownish strigillose to strigose, the longer hairs intermixed with shorter and softer white hairs, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 9-12 pairs, often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina and in furcations of lateral veins; petiole 7.5-13 cm long, strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 3.5-4 cm long, whitish strig(ill)ose to subsericeous, subpersistent. Figs cauliflorous on stout up to c. 30 cm long branchlets, with short internodes and prominent scars, and terminally with a cluster of short branchlets, on the base of the trunk (?); peduncle c. 1 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 5-6 mm long, lanceolate, stiff; receptacle turbinate to pyriform, when dry c. 2 cm diam., (sub)glabrous, with few narrow and stiff lateral bracts, faintly ribbed, colour at maturity unknown, apex slightly convex to flat, ostiole c. 4 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of stiff apical bracts, pointing upwards; internal hairs abundant, pale brown.
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