Tree up to 12 m tall or shrub. Branchlets often drying red brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, sparsely to densely whitish to brownish puberulous to hispidulous, scabridulous to smooth; internodes hollow or solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate or to lanceolate, 5-15 by 2-6 cm, ± asymmetric to almost symmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base ± inequilateral, cuneate to rounded, margin irregularly crenate-denticulate to subentire, often slightly revolute; upper surface sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous, mainly on the midrib to (sub)glabrous, ± scabrous, lower surface sparsely to densely puberulous to subhispidulous on the main veins, scabrous; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins (4-)6-9 pairs, the basal pair running ± close to the margin, up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched or branched, the other lateral veins usually unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform, the intercostals close together; waxy gland on the base of the midrib; petiole 0.7-1.4 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, densely to sparsely whitish puberulous to hispidulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.7 cm long, sparsely minutely puberulous to hispidulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.3-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 3, verticillate often subtending the receptacle, c. 1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely hispidulous, ± scabrous, sometimes with few c. 0.5 mm long lateral bracts, orange to red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole 1-2 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs abundant. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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