Shrubs or trees, 3-8 m tall. Bark gray. Branchlets reddish brown, 3-5 mm in diam., glabrous or sparsely pubescent. Stipules ovate-lanceolate, 0.7-1.5 cm, pubescent. Petiole 1-5(-9) cm; leaf blade elliptic, obovate, ovate-elliptic, narrowly obovate, or rhombic-obovate, 6-16 × 2.5-8 cm, papery, abaxially glabrous or sparsely coarsely hairy and with cystoliths, adaxially glabrous, base cuneate to rounded, margin entire, apex acute to acuminate; basal lateral veins extending 1/3-1/2 length of leaf blade, secondary veins 3-5(-7) on each side of midvein, and axils of basal secondary veins abaxially glandular. Figs axillary on normal leafy shoots, solitary or paired or sometimes densely clustered, red to purple when mature, ± globose, 1-2 cm in diam., glabrous, slightly scabrid, apical pore navel-like, convex; peduncle 3-10 mm; involucral bracts triangular-ovate. Male flowers: near apical pore or scattered, pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; stamens 2. Gall flowers: sessile or shortly pedicellate; calyx lobes 4; ovary ovoid; style glabrous; stigma 2-branched. Female flowers: sessile; calyx lobes 4; style glabrous; stigma 2-branched. Achenes ovoid, smooth. Fl. Sep-Apr, fr. May-Aug.
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