Tree up to 20 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brown(ish) appressed-puberulous to strigillose, without nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow or solid; periderm flaking off below the leaves (but not conspicuously); scars of the leaves rather prominent and conspicuous; often small conical ‘buds’ in the leaf axils and on the nodes below the leaves. Leaves (sub)distichous or subopposite; lamina oblong to subobovate, (4-)6-17 by 2-6.5 cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base obtuse to rounded (to subcuneate), margin crenate-denticulate to-dentate; upper surface sparsely brownish strigillose, smooth, lower surface sparsely to rather densely brownish strigillose on the veins, smooth, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (4-)6-9 pairs, none of them branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation loosely scalariform to subreticulate; waxy glands absent; petiole (0.4-)0.7-2 cm long, brown(ish) strigillose, the epidermis flaking off or persistent; stipules 0.6-1(-1.2) cm long, (sparsely) brownish to whitish strigillose to puberulous, mainly along the keel, caducous. Figs axillary and solitary (or cauliflorous?); peduncle 0.2-0.6 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-2 mm long; receptacle depressed-globose, 1.5-2 cm diam. when dry, brown strigillose to puberulous, non-stipitate, ± pronouncedly 6-15-ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to slightly concave, ostiole 3-3.5 mm diam.; internal hairs absent or sparse.
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