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Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branches often whippy, straggling or subscandent. Leafy twigs 1–5 mm. thick, white to brown hirtellous, hispidulous, ± strigillose or almost glabrous. Leaves distichous, alternate; lamina elliptic to oblong, ovate, subobovate, lanceolate or sometimes linear, 3–23 x 1.5–12 cm., usually ± asymmetrical, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, acute or sometimes obtuse, base cuneate or rounded, margin dentate to irregularly pinnately lobed or divided, sometimes subentire; superior surface scabrous, hispidulous or strigillose, the inferior surface hispid to hirtellous, sometimes almost glabrous; lateral veins usually 3–10 pairs, up to 13 pairs in large leaves, or more than 13 pairs in very narrow leaves; petiole 5–20 mm. long; stipules 3–6 mm. long, puberulous to almost glabrous, caducous. Figs 1–3(5) together in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, sometimes on the older wood; peduncle (5)8–15 mm. long; bracts 2–4, small, scattered on the peduncle, 2–4 similar bracts on the receptacle outer surface; receptacle depressed globose to obovoid, c. 1.5–3 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1–1.5 cm. in diam. when dry, ± hispidulous, dark red to orange or yellowish at maturity.

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Shrub up to 5 m. tall; branches often whippy, straggling or subscandent. Leafy twigs 1–5 mm. thick, white to brown hirtellous, hispidulous, ± strigillose or almost glabrous. Leaves distichous, alternate; lamina elliptic to oblong, ovate, subobovate, lanceolate or sometimes linear, 3–23 x 1.5–12 cm., usually ± asymmetrical, chartaceous to subcoriaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, acute or sometimes obtuse, base cuneate or rounded, margin dentate to irregularly pinnately lobed or divided, sometimes subentire; superior surface scabrous, hispidulous or strigillose, the inferior surface hispid to hirtellous, sometimes almost glabrous; lateral veins usually 3–10 pairs, up to 13 pairs in large leaves, or more than 13 pairs in very narrow leaves; petiole 5–20 mm. long; stipules 3–6 mm. long, puberulous to almost glabrous, caducous. Figs 1–3(5) together in the leaf axils or just below the leaves, sometimes on the older wood; peduncle (5)8–15 mm. long; bracts 2–4, small, scattered on the peduncle, 2–4 similar bracts on the receptacle outer surface; receptacle depressed globose to obovoid, c. 1.5–3 cm. in diam. when fresh, 1–1.5 cm. in diam. when dry, ± hispidulous, dark red to orange or yellowish at maturity.