Tree up to 15 m tall or shrub, hemi-epiphytic, sometimes a climber. Branches drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, ± angular, densely to sparsely minutely white puberulous or subglabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina elliptic to obovate (or to lanceolate), 5-16 by 2-6 cm, coriaceous, apex (short-)acuminate to obtuse (to rounded), base rounded to obtuse, margin ± revolute (to almost flat); upper surface glabrous, lower surface minutely white puberulous on the midrib; midrib (at least the lower part) impressed above, lateral veins (4-)6-12 pairs, the basal pair ± to hardly distinct, up to 1/10-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation largely parallel to the lateral veins, slightly prominent to flat and then ± obscure beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1(-1.5) cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, minutely white puberulous, drying blackish; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5(-6) cm long, minutely white puberulous (or glabrous), caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, (sub)equal, often weakly keeled, minutely white puberulous, persistent; receptacle subglobose to ovoid, (0.5-)0.7-1.2 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely white puberulous to glabrous, red to black at maturity, apex convex to submammillate, ostiole 2-3 mm diam., ± prominent (to conical) to flat, slightly open (or closed), the 3 upper ostiolar bracts not or partly (or fully) imbricate; wall ± shrivelled (to ribbed) towards the apex when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Ovary partly red.
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