Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, mostly hollow, densely pale brown to yellowish hirtellous to villous to lanate. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to ovate, 4-11 by 1.5-5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cordate (or to obtuse), margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface brownish strigillose to pubescent, mainly in the main veins, glabrescent, lower surface densely hirtellous to strigillose or to subtomentose on the veins, the longer hairs with ± swollen bases; cystoliths only beneath; midrib impressed, at least the lower part, other main veins often slightly impressed above, lateral veins 4-6(-7) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, often close to the margin, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins prominent beneath, the areoles small, minutely bullate and/or faintly to clearly foveolate beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins and in the axils of branches of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-3 cm long, densely brown hirtellous, the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.5-)1-2(-2.5) cm long, sparsely minutely whitish appressed-puberulous and or only brown substrigillose to hirtellous on the keel, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 8) clustered, also on up to 0.5 cm long spurs on the older wood, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.1 cm long; basal bracts 1.5-2 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-0.6 cm diam. when dry, 1-1.5 cm diam. when fresh, 0.3-0.7 cm long stipitate, densely to sparsely brownish to whitish puberulous or subglabrous, red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., flat to slightly prominent; internal hairs abundant. Tepals red.
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