Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, brownish to whitish floccose-tomentose, glabrescent. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 2.5-15 by 1.2-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, subcordate to obtuse, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, lower surface whitish to brown floccose-tomentose on the main veins, glabrescent; cystoliths on both sides; midrib (slightly) prominent above, lateral veins (5-)6-9 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/5-1/3 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some of the other lateral veins; petiole 0.6-1.2 cm long, brownish floccose-tomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.6 cm long, brown floccose-tomentose, caducous. Figs axillary (or also on up to c. 0.5 cm long spurs below the leaves?) in pairs or solitary; sessile or up to 0.5 cm long pedunculate; basal bracts c. 2 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, pale brown floccose-tomentose, glabrescent, (faintly) ribbed, crimson at maturity, 0.1-0.4 cm long stipitate, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 0.5 mm diam., ± sunken; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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