Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the leaves ± prominent. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 8-17 by 3-9.5 cm, almost symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base mostly slightly inequilateral, cuneate to rounded, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous on the veins, sparsely minutely white puberulous on the rims of the areoles; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent to flat above, lateral veins 6-9 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/6-1/5 the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate (to subscalariform), the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, inconspicuous; petiole 1-3 cm long, sparsely puberulous to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-1.7 cm long, keeled, glabrous, caducous. Figs on short spurs on the older wood, solitary; peduncle 1-2 cm long; basal bracts 3-5 mm long, persistent (or caducous?); receptacle ellipsoid, c. 5-6 cm diam. when dry, 6-7 cm diam. when fresh, glabrous, c. 2 cm long stipitate, red to purple at maturity, apex umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs abundant, short. Tepals red. Stamen 1.
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