Shrub up to 5 m tall, with internodes distinctly different in length and leaves ± tufted at the end of branches. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, brownish puberulous to hirtellous to substrigillose; periderm flaking off or persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to subobovate to subpandurate to linear, 4.5-11 by 1.5-4 cm, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex subacute to shortly acuminate, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire (sometimes sinuate to weakly pinnately lobed), ± revolute at least at the base; both surfaces glabrous or sparsely puberulous at the base of the midrib beneath; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 4-6 pairs (or 7-25 if the lamina linear), the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.2-1.5(-2.5) cm long, appressed-puberulous, the epidermis flaking off or persistent; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous (only ciliolate), caducous. Figs axillary, mostly solitary, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.3 cm long; basal bracts 3,1 mm long, glabrous, receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid to obovoid, 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, densely papillate-tuberculate with blunt processes up to 1 mm long, ± sparsely appressed-puberulous, bright red at maturity, apex convex to slightly protracted, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs sparse, minute.
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