Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall, sometimes creeping or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying pale brown. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, 6-18 by 2.5-7.5 cm, slightly asymmetric to (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to chartaceous, apex caudate, base inequi-lateral, cuneate to (sub)attenuate, one side decurrent and sometimes subauriculate, margin (sub)entire, flat; both surfaces glabrous, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent to slightly impressed above; lateral veins (6-)7-10 pairs, the basal pair mostly somewhat different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to 1/8-1/6 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins unbranched, tertiary venation laxly (sub)scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins and (faint) smaller ones (unilaterally) in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.1-0.3 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.4-0.8 cm long, minutely puberulous or glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary solitary, in pairs or clustered, sometimes (?) (flagelliflorous), on up to 0.5 cm long short-shoots on rooting, branched and up to 1.8 cm long leafless branchlets with long internodes; peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, c. 0.2 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.2-0.3 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, yellow to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., sunken, surrounded by a (very) low rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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