Tree. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 1-1.5 mm thick, glabrous, smooth. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 6-10 by 2-3.5 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous, apex caudate, base (almost) equilateral, cuneate (to obtuse), margin entire; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to c. 1/10 the length of the lamina, unbranched, other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform to (sub)reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins, usually not entirely opposite; petiole 0.2-0.4 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules amplexicaul 0.6-0.8 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle c. 0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 1-3, scattered or 2 (sub)opposite, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, minutely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, at maturity orange-yellow, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; the wall sometimes thick; internal hairs abundant. Tepals dark red, minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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