Tree up to 15 m tall. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, brown hirtellous or strigose, the longer hairs intermixed with (very) sparse white short and softer hairs, with nodal waxy glands; internodes hollow; periderm persistent. Leaves (sub)distichous to spirally arranged (or subopposite); lamina oblong to subobovate, 8-30 by 3.5-12 cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base cuneate to subcordate at the broad side, cuneate to obtuse at the narrow side, margin denticulate to dentate; upper surface hirtellous to hispidulous, ± scabrous, lower surface brown hirtellous to strigillose on the veins, the longer hairs intermixed with (very) sparse white short and softer hairs, smooth, cystoliths only beneath (or sometimes also above?); lateral veins 6-11 pairs, often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of some lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.5-2 cm long, brownish puberulous to strigillose, the longer hairs intermixed with (very) sparse white short and softer hairs, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-1.5(-2.5) cm long, brown puberulous to hirtellous to substrigose, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs flagelliflorous on branched, up to 3(-8) m long stolons with up to 12 cm long internodes; peduncle 0.2-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3, verticillate, 2-4 mm long, patent to slightly deflexed; receptacle subglobose to obovoid to subpyriform, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, c. 2.5 (?) cm diam. when fresh, brownish puberulous, glabrescent, 5-ribbed, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex; ostiole 3-7 mm diam., surrounded by 5 apical bracts, prominent; internal hairs abundant, white to brown.
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