Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, brownish to whitish minutely puberulous to subhispidulous or also sparsely hirtellous to strigillose. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate to elliptic, 5-16 by 2-6 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to obtuse or to subcordate; margin entire, slightly revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous or sparsely and minutely puberulous on the midrib, lower surface sparsely appressed-puberulous to subglabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above, lateral veins 4-7 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some of the other lateral veins; petiole 0.8-1.5 cm long, sparsely puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-) 1-1.8 cm long, rather densely white to brown puberulous, or also with a few long hairs at the base (and the apex), caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs, with a peduncle up to 0.5 cm long or subsessile; basal bracts 2-2.5 mm long, early caducous; receptacle subglobose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.7-1.2 cm diam. when dry, 0.1-0.7 cm long stipitate, sparsely and minutely puberulous and sparsely brown pulverulent, red at maturity, apex slightly umbonate to convex, ostiole 1.5-2.5 mm diam., ± prominent, surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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