Small tree or shrub, hemi-epiphytic or climbing. Branches drying brown. Leafy twigs 1-2.5 mm thick, ± angular, (very) minutely white puberulous or glabrous; periderm flaking off or persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate to oblanceolate, 3-11 by 1-5 cm, coriaceous, apex acuminate to obtuse (to rounded), base obtuse to rounded, margin ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous; midrib (at least the lower part) ± impressed above, lateral veins 4-8(-10) pairs, rather obscure, the basal pair ± (to hardly) distinct, up to 1/10-1/6 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary largely parallel to the lateral veins to reticulate; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1(-1.3) cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, glabrous, drying blackish; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, (very) minutely white puberulous or glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 2-3 mm long, (sub)equal, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.3-0.4 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, at maturity yellowish (?), apex convex, ostiole c. 1.5 mm diam., slightly prominent, open, the upper ostiolar bracts not imbricate, on a rim with 2 or 3 lower ostiolar bracts almost as large as the 3 uppermost ones and filling the open space in between the primary ones; wall smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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