Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brown hirtellous to subhirsute to subvillous or to subtomentose, all or most (thicker) hairs with ± swollen bases. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to subovate to elliptic to oblong, (1-)5-15 by (0.7-)2-6.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to subacute, base equilateral, subcordate to rounded, margin entire, revolute; upper surface sparsely hirtellous to strigillose, glabrescent, mostly ± bullate, lower surface brown hirtellous to substrigillose or to subvillous on the veins, all or most (thicker) hairs with ± swollen bases; cystoliths on both sides; venation ± impressed above, the midrib raised as a narrow ridge in the impression, lateral veins (3-)5-8 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/4-1/2 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some of the other lateral veins; petiole (0.2-)0.5-1.5 cm long, brown hirtellous to subvillous or to subtomentose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5(-2) cm long, brown hirtellous to subhirsute, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary (or in clusters of 3 or 4), (sub)sessile; basal bracts 3-7 mm long, distinctly unequal in size, caducous; receptacle subglobose, (0.3-)0.6-1 cm diam. when dry, sparsely to densely brown hirtellous to strigillose (to whitish puberulous), the stiff hairs with swollen bases, (or glabrous), orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., sunken, often surrounded by a tuft of hairs; internal hairs absent or sparse and small. Tepals red.
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