Tree up to 7(-15) m tall. Branchlets often drying red-brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, densely brown to whitish hirtellous to subvelutinous or puberulous to subhispid, smooth or scabridulous; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to ovate to subovate (to lanceolate), (2-)4-15(-30) by (1.5-)2.5-7(-9) cm, ± asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base inequilateral, cordate to rounded at one side, cuneate to rounded at the other side, margin irregularly crenate-denticulate to subentire, ± revolute; upper surface hispidulous, puberulous on the midrib, scabrous, often ± bullate, lower surface densely whitish hirtellous to subtomentose on the veins, smooth to scabridulous (to scabrous); cystoliths on both sides; tertiary and smaller veins prominent beneath; lateral veins (3-)5-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, if not running close to the margin, then faintly branched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.3-1 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, densely whitish hirtellous to subtomentose, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.8 cm long, (appressed-) puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or paired; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts (2 or) 3, scattered or 2 (sub)opposite or 3 verticillate (if subtending the receptacle, then often constituting a cupula-like structure up to the middle of the receptacle), 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.8-1.3 cm diam. when dry, hispidulous to subtomentose, scabrous or smooth, without lateral bracts (only displaced peduncular ones), yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam.; internal hairs abundant. Tepals red, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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