Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2.5 mm thick, solid, ± densely (to rather sparsely) brown subtomentose to subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to subovate (or to elliptic), 1.5-6 by 1-3.2 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to obtuse (to rounded), base equilateral, rounded to subcordate (or to cuneate), margin entire, ± revolute to almost flat; upper surface (sub)glabrous, lower surface sparsely strigillose to appressed-puberulous on the main veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib ± prominent above, lateral veins 3-6(-7) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/6-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, small, or also small ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm long, subtomentose to puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-1.2 cm long, sparsely strigillose to glabrous, caducous (or subpersistent). Figs axillary, solitary, subsessile; basal bracts 1.5-2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose to ovoid, (0.9-)1-1.8 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2(-4) cm diam. when fresh, up to 0.3 cm long stipitate or non-stipitate, (faintly) ribbed, glabrous, orange to dark red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly prominent to slightly sunken, surrounded by a low rim; wall thick; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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