Shrub or tree up to 12 m tall, lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, sparsely whitish minutely appressed-puberulous to hispidulous to (sub)glabrous, smooth or scabridulous; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate (to lanceolate), 2-10(-15) by 0.5-3(-5) cm, somewhat asymmetric to (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex caudate to subcaudate to acuminate, base slightly to clearly inequilateral, cuneate to subattenuate, one side often slightly decurrent or sometimes distinctly auriculate, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or sparsely appressed-puberulous on the midrib, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent (to flat) above; lateral veins (5-)6-9 pairs, the basal pair slightly or hardly different from the other lateral veins, up to 1/10-1/8 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins (or in the axils of the 2nd or 3rd pair of lateral veins); petiole 0.2-0.7 cm long, sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.2-0.5(-0.7) cm long, glabrous (or whitish puberulous), caducous; terminal buds ± clearly divaricate. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or paired; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose (to ellipsoid), 0.3-0.5 cm diam. when dry, 0.5-0.7 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous or appressed-puberulous near the ostiole, smooth, without lateral bracts, yellow to orange to red at maturity, apex convex to ± umbonate, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous, indurate. Styles glabrous.
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