Climber or hemi-epiphytic tree. Branches drying greyish to brown. Leafy twigs 5-10 mm thick, ± angular, minutely white puberulous to subglabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged (reflexed or pendulous?); lamina oblong to lanceolate, 10-26 by 3.5-9.5 cm, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base cordate to rounded (to obtuse); upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or minutely white puberulous on the midrib; cystoliths on both sides; midrib (at least its lower part) impressed above, lateral veins 7-12 pairs, the basal pair distinct, up to 1/4-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, (sparsely and faintly) branched or unbranched, 0 or 1 pairs of smaller lateral veins below the main pair, tertiary venation reticulate, slightly prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 1.5-3 cm long, 2.5-3.5 mm thick, glabrous or minutely white puberulous, drying blackish or brown; stipules 2-3.5(-8) cm long, densely white puberulous, caducous or (on opening shoots) subpersistent. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 4-8 mm long, ± unequal, 1 (or 2) keeled, whitish appressed-puberulous to glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose (often ± depressed), 1.3-1.8 cm diam. when dry, 2-2.5 cm diam. when fresh, (sub)glabrous, yellow to reddish at maturity, apex slightly convex and submammillate, ostiole 3-4 mm diam., slightly prominent, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts fully imbricate, 2 visible and the third sometimes just; wall ± shrivelled to almost smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary red.
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