Shrub or treelet up to 3 m tall. Leafy twigs 4-8 mm thick, dark brown setose-hirsute, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, ± tufted; lamina oblanceolate or ± sagittate-pandurate, 25-40 by 8-12 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex acute to acuminate, base subcordate, margin ciliate and dentate, towards the base coarsely dentate to sublobate; upper surface white strigose, ± scabrous, lower surface dark brown hirsute to hirtellous on the veins, paler hairs on the smaller veins, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (9-)10-25 pairs, some of them furcate far from the margin, the basal pairs slightly distinct, tertiary venation scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands absent (?); petiole 0.8-1.8 cm long, brown hirsute, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.8-3 cm long, dark brown subsetose-hirsute, (sub)persistent. Figs axillary, solitary (?); peduncle 0.2-0.3 mm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2.5-4 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 1-1.3 cm diam. when dry, dark brown strigillose with retrorse hairs, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam.; internal hairs absent or sparse.
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