Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, pale brown strigillose to hirtellous to subtomentose or to (sub)villous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate, (6-)10-20(-25) by (2.5-)5-11 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cordate (or to obtuse), margin entire, flat or ± revolute; upper surface puberulous to strigillose, mainly on the veins, gla-brescent, sometimes ± bullate, lower surface brown (sub)strigillose to hirtellous to sub-tomentose on the main veins to puberulous on the smaller veins; cystoliths on both sides; main veins ± impressed (and the midrib raised as a narrow ridge in the impression) to flat above, lateral veins 5-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2(-2/3) the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-2 cm long, brown strigillose to hirtellous to sub-tomentose or to subvillous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5 cm long, brown subvillous to subsericeous to subtomentose or to hirtellous, caducous. Figs axillary (or just below the leaves), solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.2-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3-4 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, (0.5-)1-2.5 cm diam. when dry, (1-)1.5-3 cm diam. when fresh, 0.3-0.8 cm long stipitate, pale brown velutinous or densely to sparsely puberulous to subtomentose, red(dish) at maturity, apex ± umbonate to protracted, convex (or mammillate), ostiole c. 1 mm diam., ± deeply sunken; wall thick; internal hairs few and small, absent or abundant. Tepals red.
Lowland rainforest and more open areas, along the banks of streams, at elevations around 450 metres.
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