Tree up to 16 m tall or shrub, mostly hemi-epilithic, sometimes hemi-epiphytic, deciduous. Branches drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, slightly angular to subterete, brown subtomentose; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged to subdistichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 4-10(-13) by (1.5-)2-5(-5.5) cm, (sub)coriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse, margin flat to slightly revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely brown puberulous to subtomentose on the midrib or also on the lateral veins; midrib prominent, lateral veins 5-7(-8) pairs, the basal pair ± to hardly distinct, up to 1/5-1/3 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched or unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate (in large leaves to subscalariform), slightly prominent, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pairs; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2.2) cm long, 1-2 mm thick, brown puberulous to subtomentose, drying blackish; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, brown subtomentose to puberulous, drying brown, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or paired, sessile; basal bracts 3, 1-2 mm long, subequal, puberulous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, glabrous or minutely puberulous, purple at maturity, apex convex to flat, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., prominent, closed, the upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate; wall smooth when dry; internal hairs absent or present (few). Tepals (dark) red. Ovary partly red.
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