Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish; scars of the petioles ± prominent. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid minutely white puberulous and brownish (sub)hirsute. Leaves distichous; lamina (sub)ovate, 6-16 by 3.5-9.5 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex subacuminate to acute, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin entire, flat; upper surface sparsely puberulous to hirtellous on the main veins, lower surface minutely puberulous to tomentellous and brownish strigose to (sub)hirtellous on the main veins, the longer hairs mostly with ± swollen bases, brownish to whitish tomentose on the smaller veins; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 5 or 6 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole (1-)2-3.5 cm long, brownish hirtellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-0.8 cm long, brown hirsute to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.3-0.6 cm long; basal bracts c. 5 mm long, basally connate, densely minutely white puberulous and with sparse much longer brown hairs, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 1.3-1.5 cm diam. when dry, c. 2 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate, densely whitish (sub)-tomentose, glabrescent (?), dark purple at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., ± slightly sunken, surrounded by a tuft of hairs; internal hairs sparse. Tepals reddish.
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