Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, sparsely and minutely whitish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 7-21 by 3-11 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex shortly acuminate (to acute), base equilateral, obtuse to rounded, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed (the lower part) to flat (the upper part) above, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/8-1/3 the length of the lamina, often weakly developed, unbranched or faintly branched, tertiary venation reticulate to (sub)scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles brownish when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, inconspicuous, or absent; petiole 1-4 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, (very) sparsely white appressed-puberulous, subpersistent or caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs, or on minute spurs on the older wood; peduncle 0.4-1.8 cm long; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, caducous or subpersistent; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 0.6-1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or substipitate, glabrous, yellow to orange to scarlet to crimson at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly prominent to slightly sunken; internal hairs few and short or absent. Tepals red. Stamens 2.
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