Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, brown (sub)-strigillose. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 4-12 by 1.5-4 cm, symmetric, coria-ceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin entire; upper surface brown strigillose or glabrous, lower surface (sub)strigillose to subsericeous on the main veins, hairs on the smaller veins pointing towards the apex of the lamina; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above, raised as a narrow ridge in an impression, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3 the length of the lamina, faintly branched, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform, the smaller veins prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, brown (sub)strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules c. 0.5 cm long, brownish (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary (?), solitary or in pairs (?), sessile; basal bracts c. 1-3 mm long, caducous (or subpersistent?); receptacle ellipsoid, 0.8-1 cm diam. when dry, 0.4-0.5 cm long stipitate, the stipes yellowish (sub)sericeous, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± convex or flat, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., sunken or prominent, surrounded by a low rim; wall rather thick; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
Home