Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2.5 mm thick, solid, densely brown(ish) subtomentose to subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to cordiform to suborbicular to subovate or to elliptic, 1-4.5 by 0.5-3.5 cm, symmetric (or ± asymmetric), coriaceous, apex obtuse to rounded (or to acute), base equilateral to ± inequilateral, rounded to subcordate or to obtuse, margin entire, flat, ciliate; upper surface appressed-puberulous to subtomentose, mainly on the main veins or only on the midrib, glabrescent, lower surface appressed-puberulous to subtomentose or subglabrous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib flat above, lateral veins (2 or) 3 or 4 (or 5) pairs, the basal pair veins up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins flat beneath, the areoles small and foveolate beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins; petiole 0.2-0.8 cm long, brownish subtomentose to subvillous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.8 cm long, (sub)glabrous, or puberulous at the apex, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 8) clustered, also on up to 0.2 cm long spurs on the older wood, sessile; basal bracts c. 1 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.2-0.3 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous, yellow to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., slightly prominent to slightly sunken; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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