Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish, ± compressed to angular. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, glabrous. Leaves distichous or in lax spirals; lamina elliptic to oblong, 4-9 by 1.5-4 cm, ± asymmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to acute, base inequilateral, narrowly cordate, margin entire, slightly revolute to flat; both surfaces (sub)glabrous, only minute brown trichomes, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat above, lateral veins (3-)4-6(-7) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, sometimes poorly developed, branched, often a pair of smaller basal lateral veins below the main ones, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath, the areoles brownish beneath when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral and also in some other lateral veins; petiole 0.5-1.5(-2) cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.7 cm long, glabrous, persistent. Figs axillary or on up to 1.5 cm long spurs on the older wood, solitary; subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.4 cm long; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, (sub)persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to subpyriform, c. 1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or substipitate, sparsely pulverulent, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., slightly prominent to flat, surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Stamens 2.
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