Tree up to 20 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brown(ish) appressed-puberulous to strigillose, without (or occasionally with) nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous, sometimes subopposite; lamina (ob)lanceolate to subobovate to oblong, (2-)6-18(-29) by (1-)1.5-5.5(-10) cm, slightly to distinctly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to caudate or to acute, base cuneate to obtuse, margin denticulate (at least) towards the apex; upper surface sparsely brownish to whitish strigillose to glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely (to rather densely) brown(ish) strigillose (or hirtellous) on the veins, smooth, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-10 pairs, none (or some) of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform (to subreticulate); waxy glands absent or, if present, then in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.2-1(-1.5) cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1(-1.8) cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, hirtellous to subsericeous (or glabrous), subpersistent or caducous. Figs cauliflorous, flagelliflorous, ramiflorous or sometimes axillary, mostly on clusters of rather slender to stout leafless branchlets up to 10 cm long or up to 1 m long on the (main) branches and the trunk, those at the base of the trunk becoming up to 4 m long stolons; peduncle 0.1-1(-1.6) cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to depressed-globose or to subobovoid to ellipsoid, (0.4-)0.6-1.3(-1.5) cm diam. when dry, (0.7-)1-2 cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, up to 0.5 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, (faintly) ribbed, without or with one or few lateral bracts, at maturity yellow-brown, pinkish or reddish, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., surrounded by 5 (or 6) erect apical bracts; internal hairs sparse to abundant, white to brownish.
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