Tree up to 10 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± densely dark to pale brown hirtellous or substrigose, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with (sparse) shorter and softer white hairs, often with small nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate or elliptic to obovate, (4-)6-14(-21) by (2-)3-6(-8) cm, usually ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base cuneate to obtuse (to rounded), margin (crenate-)dentate to denticulate to subentire; upper surface sparsely to rather densely brown puberulous to whitish strigillose, smooth or scabridulous, lower surface brown(ish) hirtellous to puberulous or substrigose on the (main) veins, the longer stiff hairs intermixed with (sparse) shorter and softer white hairs, smooth, cystoliths above and beneath; lateral veins 6-10(-12) pairs, none or (in large leaves) some of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation ± loosely scalariform; waxy glands absent; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, brown(ish) hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.6-1.5 cm long, brown(ish) strigillose to subhirtellous (or glabrous), caducous (or subpersistent). Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on spurs or up to 10 cm (or longer?), slender branchlets on the trunk, or on up to 1 m long stolons; peduncle 0.4-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, c. 1 mm long; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, c. 1 cm diam. when fresh, brown (sub)hirtellous to puberulous, non-stipitate or up to 0.3 cm long stipitate, not ribbed, without lateral bracts, red to purple at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 2.5-3 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs sparse, brownish.
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