Tree up to 20(-40) m tall (or shrub). Branchlets drying dark (red-)brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, minutely whitish hispidulous, scabrous; internodes solid or hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to ovate, 2-12(-16) by 2-7(-8) cm, ± asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base ± inequilateral, truncate (to subcordate) to subcuneate, margin irregularly crenate-dent(icul)ate to subentire, usually ± revolute; upper surface minutely hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface minutely hispidulous on the veins, or also very sparsely strigillose on the midrib, scabrous; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 3-7(-9) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/2 the length of the lamina, these and mostly also other lateral veins branched or furcate, tertiary venation scalariform, slightly prominent but the smaller to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, minutely hispidulous, epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.4-0.6 cm long, minutely hispidulous and ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.2-1 cm long; peduncular bracts 3, scattered or verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.6 or (0.5-)0.7-1.2 cm diam. when dry, minutely hispidulous, scabridulous, often with few 0.5-1 mm long lateral bracts, yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-3 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs abundant. Tepals dark red or pinkish, hairy at the apices or glabrous. Styles glabrous or hairy. Fruits ± tuberculate.
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