Shrub up to 1 m high, with rooting stolon-like stems and ascending or erect leafy branches. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, dark brown to blackish strigose; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged, sometimes subopposite, ± tufted; lamina oblanceolate, (3-)6-18 by (1.2-)2-4 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex subacuminate to acute, base cuneate to subattenuate, the margin entire or denticulate towards the apex, often ± involute; upper surface dark brown or whitish strigose mostly only on the midrib, lower surface dark brown strigose on the midrib and the margin, often sparsely so on the lateral veins; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins 8-12 pairs, not distinctly loop-connected, the basal pair not distinct, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands small, in the axils of the lateral veins in the middle part of the lamina; petiole 0.8-3.5(-7.5) cm long, dark brown strigose, the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5 cm long, with cuspidate apex, brown puberulous and dark brown strigose on the midrib, subpersistent or caducous. Figs axillary, solitary on the leaf axils or cauliflorous to flagelliflorous on leafless trailing branchlets, sessile; without distinct basal bracts; receptacle subovoid, 2-2.5 cm diam. when dry, with numerous lateral bracts, these lanceolate to broadly triangular, 0.2-1.5 cm long, dark brown strigose, blackish (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded and hidden by the upper lateral bracts; internal hairs few, short, brown. Styles 6-15 mm long, with deflexed hairs (also on the edges of the compressed ovary).
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