Shrub or tree up to 15 m tall, mostly hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying (pale) brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, sparsely brownish minutely puberulous to subhispidulous to subglabrous, smooth (or scabridulous); internodes solid or hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate to elliptic or to lanceolate, (2-)4-22 by (1.5-)3-9 cm, ± asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base ± equilateral, the narrow side cuneate to obtuse, the broad side obtuse to subcordate, decurrent, margin irregularly crenate-dentate to subentire, sometimes ± revolute; upper surface hispidulous to puberulous to subglabrous, ± scabrous or smooth, lower surface sparsely puberulous to hispidulous on the veins, scabridulous to smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above; lateral veins (4-)6-9(-11) pairs, the basal pair up to (1/5-)1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, at the broad side usually branched, at the narrow side running close to the margin and unbranched, the other lateral veins mostly branched or furcate, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate to laxly subscalariform; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.1-0.6 cm long, sparsely puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.7 cm long, sparsely puberulous or only ciliolate, caducous or subpersistent. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, or ramiflorous to cauliflorous, on (clusters of) short-shoots up to 1.5 mm long; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, often near the base, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.5 cm diam. when dry, very sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous, smooth, without or with 1 or 2 lateral bracts, yellow to orange or reddish at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by low rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish (or pinkish), minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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