Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish; scars of the petioles often prominent. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, solid, minutely whitish puberulous to tomentellous and often also whitish floccose-subvillous or brown subhirsute to villous. Leaves distichous; lamina cordiform to ovate to elliptic, 7-20 by 4-15 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to cordate (or to obtuse), margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface sparsely puberulous on the main veins, glabrescent, lower surface densely brown floccose-tomentose on the main veins to subvillous or substrigose; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 3-5 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2-3/4 the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also of some other lateral veins and in axils of branches of lateral veins; petiole 1.5-6(-7.5) cm long, densely brown floccose-tomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.6-1.8 cm long, brownish to whitish subvillous to subhirsute, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; with a peduncle 0.2-1.4 cm long or subsessile; basal bracts (3-)5-7(-10) mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 1.2-2.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, densely brownish to whitish floccose-tomentose or pale brown woolly-villous, often glabrescent, but persistent around the ostiole, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± umbonate to apiculate, ostiole c. 1-2 mm diam., ± prominent to slightly sunken; internal hairs sparse and short or absent. Tepals red.
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