Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, minutely whitish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina subobovate to ob-ovate to oblong to elliptic to subovate to suborbicular or to lanceolate, 1-5(-7.5) by 0.5-5.5 cm, symmetric (or asymmetric), coriaceous, apex rounded to obtuse to shortly and bluntly acuminate (or to subacute), minutely retuse, initially with some hairs in the notch, base (almost) equilateral, cuneate to obtuse to rounded (to subcordate), margin entire, ± revolute, often only towards the base; both surfaces (sub)glabrous, only with minute brown trichomes, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed to flat above, lateral veins (2-)3-7(-8) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/2 the length of the lamina, well-to ± poorly developed, unbranched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins flat beneath, the areoles brownish beneath when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, usually also in the axils of other lateral veins, or absent; petiole 0.3-1(-2) cm long, minutely puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.8 cm long, glabrous or minutely puberulous, caducous (or subpersistent on twigs with asymmetric laminas). Figs axillary (or also just below the leaves), in pairs or solitary, or sometimes clustered on minute spurs on the older wood; peduncle 0.05-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 0.5-1.5 mm long, caducous (or subpersistent); receptacle subglobose to pyriform, 0.3-0.6(-0.8) cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.4 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, yellow to red-brown to purplish at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., prominent to slightly sunken; internal hairs sparse or absent. Tepals red. Stamens 2.
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