Shrub or tree up to 7 m tall, often hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, sparsely minutely puberulous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong (to elliptic to subrhombic or to (ob)lanceolate), 3-8(-16) by 1-2.5(-4.5) cm, (almost) symmetric to slightly asymmetric, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, apex (gradually) caudate, base almost equilateral, cuneate (to obtuse), (in the upper part) often (sparsely and) coarsely crenate-dentate (to sublobate) or entire, revolute or flat; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface very sparsely appressed-puberulous on the veins to subglabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 5-9(-15) pairs, the basal pair mostly somewhat different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to c. 1/5 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins departing from the midrib wide, mostly at angles of (nearly) 90° and mostly (almost) straight, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins (or of both); petiole 0.2-0.5(-0.8) cm long, sparsely minutely puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.3-0.7 cm long, glabrous or ciliolate, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or paired, or clustered on minute spurs, more commonly so on up to 0.3 cm long spurs (or tubercles) below the leaves (ramiflorous); peduncle 0.05-0.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, at the base of the peduncle, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle ovoid to ellipsoid to (sub)globose, 0.2-0.3 cm diam. when dry, 0.5-0.6 cm diam. when fresh, (very) sparsely minutely puberulous, smooth, without or with few lateral bracts, yellow (to whitish?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by short and ± thickened apical bracts; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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