Tree up to 8 m tall. Branchlets drying (dark) brown, drooping. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, slightly angular to subterete, glabrous. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina elliptic to oblong, 4-13 by 1.5-5 cm, ± asymmetric, coriaceous, apex subcaudate, base inequilateral to equilateral, cuneate to obtuse, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, dull when dry, lower surface glabrous, smooth; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 9-11 pairs, the basal pair hardly or not distinct, tertiary venation reticulate to partly parallel to the lateral veins, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.4-1.2 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-1.5 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary, sessile; basal bracts 3, verticillate, c. 1.5 cm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, c. 1.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., slightly prominent; wall thick; internal hairs absent. Tepals (dark) red, glabrous. Stamen 1.
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