Shrub or tree up to 8 m tall, mostly hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying (pale) brown. Leafy twigs 2-5 mm thick, brown puberulous to subhirtellous, smooth; internodes solid or hollow. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate to lanceolate, (3-)10-30(-40) by (2-)4-10(-13) cm, asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate to subcaudate, base ± equilateral, the narrow side cuneate to subcordate, the broad side rounded to cordate (or to cuneate), decurrent and often subauriculate, margin entire or denticulate to coarsely dentate (to sublobate), often ± revolute; upper surface puberulous to subhispidulous, mainly on the veins, ± scabrous to smooth, lower surface (rather) densely brown puberulous to subtomentose on the veins, smooth; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above; lateral veins (4-)6-10(-12) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, at the broad side of the lamina usually branched, at the narrow side mostly running close to the margin of the lamina and unbranched, the other lateral veins mostly branched or furcate, tertiary venation laxly (sub)scalariform to reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins or also 1 or 2 additional ones in the axils of other lateral veins at the same side of the lamina; petiole 0.2-1(-1.2) cm long, brown puberulous to subtomentose, the epidermis persistent; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 1-1.5 cm long, brownish appressed-puberulous to strigillose, subpersistent. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary, in pairs or clustered on minute short-shoots, or also ramiflorous; with a peduncle 0.1-0.8(-1.2) cm long or subsessile; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, mostly near the base, c. 0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.6-1 (or 0.3-0.5) cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2.2 cm diam. when fresh, densely brownish subhirtellous to subhispid to hispidulous (or sparsely whitish hispidulous), ± scabrous to almost smooth, without or with some lateral bracts, white to pink, yellow, orange, or to dark red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent or sparse and minute. Tepals whitish (or pinkish), minutely hairy at the apices. Styles glabrous.
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