Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, sparsely and minutely whitish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)ovate, 3.5-9 by 1.5-7 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex obtuse to shortly and bluntly acuminate or to rounded, mostly minutely retuse, initially with some hairs in the notch, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate or to cuneate, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat above, lateral veins (4-)5-8 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched or faintly branched, 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 and often also in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.7-1.7 cm long, minutely puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.4 cm long; basal bracts 1.5-3 mm long, (sub)persistent or caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1.2(-1.5) cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.2 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 1.5-2 mm diam., prominent to ± sunken; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamens 2.
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