Tree. Leafy twigs 3-4 mm thick, brown strigillose, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina ovate to elliptic, 13-23 by 5-12 cm, symmetric, chartaceous, apex subacuminate, base subcordate, margin crenate-denticulate; upper surface sparsely puberulous to strigillose, mainly on the main veins, scabridulous, lower surface brown strigillose, ± scabrous, cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 6-9 pairs, mostly branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation lax scalariform; waxy glands in axils of lateral veins in and above the middle part of the lamina; petiole 2-3.5 cm long, brown strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules c. 1.5 cm long, brown strigillose, caducous. Figs cauliflorous on shortly branched up to 5 cm long branchlets with up to 0.2 cm long stipules, on the older wood; peduncle 0.2-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 1-1.5 mm long; receptacle subglobose, c. 1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous, pulverulent, faintly ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex flat to slightly concave; ostiole c. 2.5 mm diam., surrounded by 5 small apical bracts; internal hairs abundant, brown.
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