Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, white appressed-puberulous with hairs of different length to glabrous, with (small) nodal glands; with persistent up to 8 mm long subulate ‘buds’ in the leaf axils; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, 7-26 by 2.5-8 cm, (almost) symmetric, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to cuneate, margin (sub)entire; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface white appressed-puberulous on the main veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 10-16 pairs, none of them furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands (in some of the leaves) in slit-shaped extensions of the axils of 1 or 2 lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, white puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1.5-3 cm long, white appressed-puberulous along the keel, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous on branched stolons with up to 2 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.1-0.3 cm long; basal bracts 3(-6), verticillate (or subverticillate), 2-5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, when dry 1.2-1.6 cm diam., puberulous, with several flat lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex, ostiole 2-3 mm diam.; internal hairs absent.
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