Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, ribbed, sparsely brown subhirsute to subvillous, the hairs with ± swollen bases, or also puberulous. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to subovate to subcordiform or to oblong or elliptic, 8-20(-27) by 4-10(-15) cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate subacute, base (almost) equilateral, cordate (to rounded), margin entire, flat or slightly revolute; upper surface sparsely hirtellous, glabrescent, often ± bullate, lower surface sparsely puberulous or also very sparsely strigose on the main veins, the hairs with swollen bases, or also puberulous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent to almost flat above, main veins flat or slightly impressed and then the midrib raised as a narrow ridge in the impression above, also other veins often ± impressed, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins; petiole 1-2.5(-4) cm long, sparsely subhirsute to strigose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1-2 cm long, sparsely to densely strigose to subvillous, caducous. Figs axillary and ramiflorous to cauliflorous on up to 1 cm long robust spurs on the older wood (at the apex usually hairy and with subpersistent stipules), solitary or in pairs; with up to 0.3 cm long peduncle or sessile; basal bracts 3-5 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, (1-)1.2-2 cm diam. when dry, 0.3-2 cm long stipitate, glabrous or sparsely whitish subtomentose, punctate-muriculate (at least at the apex), surface smooth or pustulate, red to purplish at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., slightly sunken, surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs absent or few and small. Tepals red.
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