Treelet up to 4 m tall, often lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, minutely whitish to brownish hispidulous, ± scabrous; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subobovate to lanceolate, 6-18(-33) by 1.5-5.5(-9.5) cm, slightly asymmetric, (sub)coriaceous to chartaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base ± equilateral, obtuse to rounded, at one side decurrent, margin entire or faintly denticulate, upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface sparsely puberulous to subhispidulous, smooth to scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 7-9 pairs, the basal pair running close to the margin of the lamina, up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation laxly scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins or of both; petiole 0.1-0.5 cm long, minutely hispidulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.3-0.6 cm long, minutely hispidulous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary, in pairs, or clustered on minute spurs; subsessile or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, mostly near the base, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.2-0.4 cm diam. when dry, sparsely minutely hispidulous, scabridulous, without lateral bracts, yellow to orange or red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam.; internal hairs absent or sparse and minute. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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