Climber, or hemi-epiphytic shrub or treelet. Branches drying yellowish to brown. Leafy twigs 2-6(-8) mm thick, ± angular, with sparse to dense dark brown appressed indumentum (scurfy). Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic (or to lanceolate), (5-)10-20(-26) by (2-)5-9(-11) cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to obtuse to subcordate or to cuneate; upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat to slightly impressed above, lateral veins 6-14 pairs, the basal pair ± distinct, up to 1/8-1/6(-1/4) the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched or unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5-5(-8) cm long, 2-3 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 0.5-1.5(-6) cm long, with sparse to dense dark brown appressed indumentum or subglabrous, caducous. Figs axillary (or just below the leaves), in pairs (or solitary), initially enclosed in up to 0.8 cm long calyptrate bud covers; peduncle 0.2-0.7 cm long, the apex slightly dilated, passing into the bracts; basal bracts 3, 0.5-2 mm long, subequal, with dark brown scurfy indumentum (and whitish ciliolate), persistent; receptacle ellipsoid to subglobose, 0.8-1.2 cm diam. when dry, c. 1.5 cm diam. when fresh, with dark sparse to dense brown appressed indumentum (scurfy), greenish (?) at maturity, apex slightly convex to flat to concave, ostiole 2-2.5 mm diam., ± prominent, (when dry) often surrounded by a rim, ± open, the 3(-5) upper ostiolar bracts unequal, not or hardly imbricate, thick; wall slightly shrivelled when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly reddish.
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