Tree up to 13 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, very sparsely appressed-puberulous or (sub)glabrous (or brown puberulous to substrigillose), without or with nodal waxy glands; with persistent minute conical ‘buds’ in the leaf axils; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves laxly spirally arranged, (sub)distichous or subopposite; lamina (ob)lanceolate to sublinear or (to subobovate or to oblong), (3-)6-21 by (1-)2-5 cm, often slightly asymmetric, subcoriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate to subacute, base cuneate to obtuse, margin entire to (faintly) denticulate; upper surface glabrous (or appressed-puberulous on the midrib), smooth, lower surface (sub)glabrous, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-10(-12) pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation subreticulate to loosely scalariform; waxy glands minute in the axils of some of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina, sometimes also a single much larger one at the base of the lamina; petiole (0.5-)1-2 cm long, (sub)glabrous (or sparsely brownish strigillose), the epidermis persistent; stipules 1-2 cm long, glabrous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on clusters of up to 10 cm long branchlets, on the older wood, or on stolons with caducous stipules; peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to pyriform, 1-1.5 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, non-stipitate or up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, not or ± faintly ribbed, without lateral bracts, yellow, pink or purple at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole 3-3.5 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent or sparse.
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