Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 2-8 mm thick, hollow, glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina cordiform (to elliptic), (4.5-)8-22 by (2.5-)5-16 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, cordate (to rounded), margin entire, flat to slightly revolute; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib flat to slightly impressed above, lateral veins 4 or 5 (or 6) pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent 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 (1.5-)2.5-7.5 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1.5 cm long, brownish to whitish appressed-puberulous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.8-3 cm long; basal bracts 2-3 mm long, persistent, often spreading to slightly deflexed; receptacle subglobose, (1.2-)1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-3 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or substipitate, glabrous, yellow to orange to red at maturity, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse and short or absent. Tepals red.
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