Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, solid, densely (pale) brown tomentose to floccose-tomentose. Leaves distichous; lamina (sub)ovate to elliptic to oblong, 2.5-9 by 1.2-3.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to obtuse, margin entire, flat to slightly revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous, lower surface densely (pale) brown floccose-tomentose, the main veins ± glabrescent; cystoliths only beneath or absent; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole (0.7-)1-4.5 cm long, (pale) brown floccose-tomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.4-0.5 cm long, (pale) brown floccose-tomentose, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.5-1.2 cm long; basal bracts c. 3 mm long, persistent, often ± deflexed; receptacle subglobose, c. 0.6-1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, pale brown floccose-tomentose, (glabrescent?), red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., flat, surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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