Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-2.5 mm thick, solid, densely pale brown to greyish floccose-villous. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to oblong, 3-11 by 1.2-4.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cuneate, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface glabrous or tomentellous on the midrib, glabrescent, lower surface densely floccose-villous; cystoliths only above; midrib ± impressed above, lateral veins 3-5(-6) pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, mostly close to the margin, unbranched or faintly branched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath, the areoles small, minutely bullate to subfoveolate beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins (hidden by the indumentum); petiole 0.3-1(-1.2) cm long, pale brown to greyish floccose-villous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.5-0.8 cm long, whitish pubescent on the keels and the base, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 7) clustered, also on up to 0.3 cm long spurs on the older wood, sessile; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, (sub)persistent; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid, 0.4-0.6 cm diam. when dry, 0.1-0.3 cm long stipitate, often ± pustulate, densely whitish floccose-tomentose, glabrescent, orange at maturity, apex slightly umbonate to convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., flat to slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse. Tepals red.
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