Shrub or (slender) treelet up to 6 m tall, sometimes subscandent, epiphytic or epilithic. Leafy twigs 1-4(-7) mm thick, glabrous, often dark purplish brown to blackish; periderm flaking off. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to lanceolate to oblanceolate to obovate, (1-)4.5-9(-18) by 0.5-3.5(-7.5) cm, coriaceous, usually drying brown, apex acuminate to subacute to obtuse to rounded, base cuneate to subattenuate, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths only beneath; lateral veins (3-)4-10(-15) pairs, often departing from the midrib in wide angles (up to 90º), or the midrib furcate in the upper part of the lamina if the apex is rounded, the basal pair ± distinct, tertiary venation largely parallel to the lateral veins to reticulate, midrib even in lamina with acuminate apex not reaching the tip of the acumen; waxy glands often absent, if present, then only on some leaves of a twig, 1 or 2, conspicuous, in the axils of the basal lateral veins or sometimes also (± inconspicuous) ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.2-2(-3) cm long, 0.5-1 or 1.2-2(-2.5) mm thick, glabrous or minutely puberulous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.3-1.7 cm long, ciliolate or entirely glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.1-1.6(-2) cm long; basal bracts 3, 1-2.5 mm long, ciliolate; receptacle subglobose to ellipsoid (to fusiform), 0.2-0.7 or 0.5-1.2 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.3 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, glabrous or minutely puberulous, red to dark purple at maturity, apex convex or ± protracted, ostiole 1.5-2.5 mm diam., ± prominent to flat; internal hairs absent or present in ‘seed-figs’, ‘seed-figs’ with 1-c. 20 flowers. Tepals of the pistillate flowers often ± flesh, glabrous or hairy at the apex.
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