Liana or hemi-epiphytic treelet up to 3 m tall. Branchlets drying brown to greyish, fig-bearing branchlets to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-2 mm thick, (very) sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous, (almost) smooth. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate, 6-19 by 2-7 cm, somewhat asymmetric to almost symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base ± inequilateral to almost equilateral, if inequilateral, then one side cuneate (to subcordate), the other side slightly to clearly decurrent, auriculate or not, if equilateral, then subcordate, margin entire, flat; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 7-10(-11) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, usually 1-3 pairs of smaller subbasal lateral veins, the other lateral veins also unbranched, tertiary venation laxly scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral vein; petiole 0.1-0.4 cm long, (very) sparsely whitish puberulous, epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.2-1 cm long, sparsely and minutely whitish appressed-puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Figs flagelliflorous, on (clusters of) up to 1 cm long leafless branchlets with short internodes on up to c. 5 m long stolons; peduncle 0.2-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 1 or 2 (or 3), scattered, c. 0.5 mm long, ovate; receptacle (sub)globose to ovoid, 0.2-0.3 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., surrounded by a very low irregular rim, the outer ostiolar slightly protruding; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish (brownish when dry), glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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