Shrub up to 3 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-3.5 mm thick, puberulous, solid. Leaves (sub) distichous; lamina linear-lanceolate, 9-24 by 1-2(-4.5) cm, slightly asymmetric at the base, coriaceous, apex subcaudate, base cuneate, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 10-20 pairs, basal pair not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, inconspicuous; petiole 0.2-1 cm long, appressed-puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.2-2.5(-3.5) cm long, glabrous or at the base puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.5-1.5(-2.2) cm long; basal bracts 3, (sub)verticillate, c. 1.5 mm long, minutely puberulous, persistent; receptacle subglobose to obovoid, 1.2-1.8 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.6 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, minutely puberulous, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex to flat, ostiole c. 3 mm diam., prominent (± umbonate); internal hairs absent.
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