Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, sparsely minutely whitish appressed-puberulous or glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate, 3-10(-16) by 1-5(-6.5) cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate to acute to obtuse, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate or to subcuneate, margin entire; both surfaces glabrous; cystoliths on both sides; midrib flat above, lateral veins 4-7 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/5-1/2 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also smaller ones in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.5-2 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off in large flakes; stipules, 0.4-1.2 cm long, minutely whitish appressed-puberulous or glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary and on up to 0.5 cm long spurs on the older wood, solitary (or in pairs); peduncle 0.2-1 cm long; basal bracts 0.5-1.5 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose to ovoid to ellipsoid, 0.6-1 cm diam. when dry, 2-3.5 cm diam. when fresh, 0.2-1 cm long stipitate, brown pulverulent, red to scarlet to purple-black at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., ± sunken, often surrounded by a rim; internal hairs few or absent. Tepals red.
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Root-climber, glabrous. Leaves alternate; lamina generally ovate, (3–) 7–13 cm long, (1.5–) 4–7 cm wide, rounded at base, obtuse to shortly acuminate at apex, not pitted beneath; lateral veins 5–8 pairs, prominent; petiole (0.5–) 1.5–3 cm long, scaly or flaky; stipules narrow, 0.6–1.3 cm long. Figs pedunculate, globular, 1–1.5 cm diam., pinkish brown to reddish; ostiole somewhat sunken; basal bracts 2 mm long, forming a small collar. Male flowers mainly ostiolar; anthers to 2 mm long. Female flowers with ovary to 1.5 mm long; style simple; pedicel c. 1.5 mm long.
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