Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2 mm thick, densely brown strigillose. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate, 2.5-5.5 by 1.2-2.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex subacute, base equilateral, rounded to subcuneate, margin entire, revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface brown (sub)strigillose, also on the smaller veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly impressed above, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, faintly branched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some of the other lateral veins; petiole 0.3-0.7 cm long, brown strigillose, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.4-0.8 cm long, brownish (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle c. 0.1 cm long; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, densely brown substrigillose, red at maturity, 0.1-0.15 cm long stipitate, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 0.5 mm diam., sunken; internal hairs abundant. Tepals red.
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A climbing plant. The leaves are in 2 opposite rows.