Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, sparsely minutely puberulous to subhispidulous and sparsely setose-strigose (with irritant hairs). Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to subovate, 9-17 by 4-9 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate or apiculate, base equilateral, cordate, margin entire, flat or revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely setose-strigose (with irritant hairs) or also sparsely hispidulous on the main veins; cystoliths on both surfaces; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 6-8 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/4-1/3 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and of some other lateral veins or also in the axils of branches of lateral veins; petiole 1-1.8 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.8-1 cm long, minutely brown puberulous and sparsely setose-strigose (with irritant hairs), mainly at the base, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves (?), solitary; peduncle c. 0.5 cm long; basal bracts 2-5 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 1.5-5 (or-6.5?) cm diam. when dry, up to 6.5 cm diam. when fresh, 1-1.2 cm long stipitate, setose, ± orange at maturity, wall (3-12 mm) thick and hard, apex convex, ostiole 2-5 mm diam., slightly to deeply sunken; internal hairs very sparse. Tepals red.
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