Procumbent shrub up to c. 0.5 m tall, or tree (?). Branchlets drying pale brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, whitish subtomentose, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 23-35 by 7.5-13 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex subcaudate, base slightly inequilateral, bilaterally auriculate, margin sinuate to faintly crenate-dentate or subentire, upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface subhirtellous to puberulous on the veins, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent to flat above; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin of the lamina, up to 1/10-1/5 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.3-0.6 cm long, subtomentose to subhirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul to amplexicaul, 1.3-1.6 cm long, whitish appressed-puberulous, striate, subpersistent. Figs ramiflorous, solitary, or cauliflorous on tuberculate clusters of up to 1.5 cm long leafless branches with short internodes on the older wood; peduncle 1.2-2(-3) cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, c. 0.5 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely puberulous to subglabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a lobed rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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