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Shrub or small tree up to 8 m tall, rarely more, with trunk up to 1 m in diam.; bark brownish to greyish; latex milky white; young branches pubescent to glabrous. Leaves alternate, rarely subopposite; stipules broadly lanceolate, fully clasping the stem, c. 1.5 cm long; petiole 2–7 cm long, slender, glabrous; blade lanceolate to oblong, rarely narrowly ovate to obovate, 5–20 x 1.5–5 cm, ± leathery, base cuneate, margin entire, apex long acuminate, often shiny above, glabrous on both sides, with 8–15 pairs of lateral veins. Figs 1–2 in the leaf axils, on peduncles 2–4 mm long, puberulous; basal bracts 3, ovate, puberulous; receptacles globose, 4–5 mm in diam., not stipitate; ostiole ± prominent, with 3–4 ovate bracts visible from the outside.