Shrub up to 1.5 m tall or treelet. Leafy twigs (1.5-)3-6 mm thick, brownish hispidulous; internodes hollow. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to lanceolate to linear-lanceolate, 6-29 by 1.5-12 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, margin denticulate; upper surface brownish hispidulous, mainly on the veins, scabrous, lower surface brownish hispidulous, scabrous; cystoliths on both sides, sparse; lateral veins 6-9(-16) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/4 the length of the lamina, often branched in broad laminas, tertiary venation laxly scalariform or subreticulate in narrow leaves; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins or also smaller ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 1-9 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, sparsely brownish hispidulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.7-1 cm long, brownish strigillose, caducous. Figs in the leaf axils, paired or solitary, subsessile or sessile; peduncular bracts 1-3, 2-3 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, sparsely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, orange at maturity, apex ± convex to umbonate, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., surrounded by c. 5 brown hairy apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, white, up to 1.5 mm long. Tepals whitish, conspicuously hairy, the hairs up to 1.5 mm long. Styles glabrous. Fruits (endocarp bodies) 1-1.5 mm long, subtetrahedral, tuberculate, weakly keeled.
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