Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, sparsely whitish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves distichous or in lax spirals; lamina elliptic to ovate, 4-11 by 2-6 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate to obtuse (to rounded), minutely retuse, base equilateral, rounded to obtuse (or to subtruncate), margin entire, revolute; both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib impressed above, lateral veins 4-8 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller (almost) flat beneath, the areoles brownish beneath when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and minute or absent; petiole (0.8-)1-2(-3) cm long, 1.5-2.5 mm thick, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-1.2 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary or also just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.3 cm long; basal bracts c. 1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., prominent to flat; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamens 2.
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