Tree up to 11 m tall; milksap (sometimes?) absent. Branchlets often drying (red-) brown, the periderm flaking off inconspicuously. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to subobovate, (5-)8-22(-25) by 3.5-10(-14) cm, (almost) symmetric to ± asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex shortly and often ± abruptly acuminate to rounded (to subacute), base cuneate to rounded, margin entire to weakly crenate-dentate, often ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, smooth (to scabridulous); cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins often slightly impressed above; lateral veins 6-11 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin, up to 1/6-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, sometimes one of the upper lateral veins furcate, tertiary venation regularly scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of both basal lateral veins; petiole 0.8-2 cm long, slightly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, glabrous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.5 cm long, ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 2 (sub)opposite or 3 (almost) verticillate, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.8-1.4 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, punctate, smooth, without lateral bracts, yellow to dark red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs abundant, brownish, relatively long. Tepals dark red, minutely hairy at the apices. Styles hairy.
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