Tree up to 25 m tall, hemi-epiphytic or (secondarily?) terrestrial. Branches drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina obovate to subobovate, 3-9 by 1-4.5 cm, coriaceous, apex rounded to obtuse, base obtuse to cuneate (or to rounded), margin flat or ± revolute towards the base; both surfaces glabrous; midrib (at least the lower part) ± impressed above, lateral veins (3-)4-6(-8) pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary largely parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins ± obscure; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, glabrous, drying brown, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1(-1.2) cm long, glabrous (or white puberulous), caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 2-4 mm long, (sub)equal, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-0.5 cm diam. when dry, sometimes substipitate, glabrous, yellow to red at maturity, apex convex to mammillate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., ± umbonate, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall (almost) smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary reddish.
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