Tree. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, white appressed-puberulous with hairs of different length to glabrous, with (small) nodal glands; with persistent minute conical ‘buds’ in the leaf axils; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off (often starting below the leaves). Leaves subdistichous or subopposite; lamina oblong, 4.5-12.5 by 1.5-4 cm, slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base (sub)cuneate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface very sparsely appressed-puberulous on the midrib, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 7-10 pairs, some or none of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation subscalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands absent; petiole 0.3-0.8 cm long, white puberulous adaxially, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous on branched stolons with up to 1.5 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.4-0.5 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.9-1.1 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, without lateral bracts, red at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., prominent; internal hairs sparse, brownish.
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