Shrub up to 3 m tall and epiphytic, epilithic or terrestrial or tree up to 7(-10) m tall and terrestrial. Leafy twigs 1-5 mm thick, glabrous, mostly greyish or pale brown; periderm persistent or flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to obtriangular to oblanceolate to spathulate to linear or to suborbicular, 1-8(-25) by 0.5-8(-14) cm, (sub)coriaceous, usually drying greyish green to pale brown, apex acuminate to acute to rounded to emarginate (to bilobate), base (sub)acute, margin entire, often ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous (or sparsely minutely puberulous at the base of the midrib beneath); cystoliths only beneath; venation pinnate with (2-)3-8(-9) pairs of lateral veins (mostly departing the midrib in ± acute angles) and the basal pair ± distinct or with the midrib furcate at various distances from the basal pair of lateral veins (but mostly in the lower part or up to the middle of the lamina), tertiary venation reticulate, midrib in lamina with acuminate apex usually reaching the tip of the acumen; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, sometimes also in the axils of other lateral veins, usually in the furcation of the midrib and sometimes in the furcations or axils of the two branches of the midrib, in total up to 9 glands; petiole 0.2-1.5(-9) cm long, 1-3 mm thick, glabrous or minutely puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-1(-1.5) cm long, only ciliolate, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, with a peduncle up to 1.5(-3) cm long or subsessile; basal bracts 3, 0.5-3 mm long, ciliolate or also minutely puberulous outside; receptacle globose to ellipsoid to (sub)ovoid to oblongoid to fusiform or almost cylindrical, 0.4-0.8 cm diam. when dry, 0.4-1.5 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, yellow to orange or red to dark purple (to black) at maturity, apex convex to ± protracted (up to 0.7 cm long), ostiole 1.5-2.5 mm diam., prominent, the base of the receptacle sometimes cupulate; internal hairs present or absent. Tepals of the pistillate flowers fleshy.
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A fig. It is a herb that grows 2 m tall. The leaves can be round or egg shaped. The leaves are shiny green above and golden yellow underneath. There are black spots.
An understorey plant, common in lowlands and mountains, at elevations up to 3,200 metres. Generally occurring as an epiphyte, but found as a terrestrial bush on sandy shores and mountain tops and bogs.
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