Treelets up to 6 m tall, sparingly branched, first (and second) node of (lateral) branches only with stipules. Leafy twigs 5-8 mm thick, glabrous or hirtellous; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged, often ± tufted; lamina subpandurate to (sub)obovate or to oblanceolate, (5-)25-36 by (3-)11-15 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, (shortly) acuminate (or rounded), base cordate, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, lower surface subglabrous (with minute pluricellular trichomes mainly on the veins); cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 9-14 pairs, most of them furcate far from the margin, basal ones slightly or hardly distinct, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform to almost reticulate (in small leaves); waxy glands in the axils of one or both (main) basal veins and in the furcations of the lateral veins; petiole (1-)2-5 cm long, glabrous or hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (1-)1.5-6 cm long, ovate-saccate, apiculate, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, in pairs, sessile; basal bracts 3 or 4, ± scattered, 5-7 mm long, coriaceous; receptacle subglobose, c. 2 cm diam. when dry, 3-3.5 cm diam. when fresh, brownish subtomentose, with some lateral bracts, yellowish (?) at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 4-7 mm diam., ± umbonate; internal bristles abundant to sparse, brownish.
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