Tree up to c. 30 m tall. Branchlets drying (dark) brown to blackish; scars of the petioles prominent. Leafy twigs 2.5-4 mm thick, solid, angular, sparsely and minutely appressed-puberulous. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to oblong, 4.5-7 by 2-4 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex obtuse, base equilateral, obtuse to rounded, margin entire, revolute; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; midrib almost flat and the lateral and smaller veins slightly prominent and conspicuous above, lateral veins 7-9 pairs, the basal pair not or slightly distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.6-1 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-1.5 cm long, densely brownish appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.3 cm long; basal bracts (2 or) 3, verticillate or scattered on the peduncle up to the base of the receptacle, 1-1.5 cm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 1.5-1.8 cm diam. when dry, (sub)glabrous, green (?) at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., slightly prominent; wall 2-5 mm thick, in the middle thicker and dividing the cavity into two compartments; internal hairs absent. Tepals (dark) red, glabrous. Stamens 2.
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