Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, hollow, densely brown hirtellous to velutinous (or strigillose). Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to lanceolate, 5-15(-20) by 1.5-5(-6.5) cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex subacuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to subcordate (or to obtuse), margin entire, flat to ± revolute; upper surface brown hirtellous (or strigillose), mainly in the main veins, glabrescent, lower surface densely hirtellous to subtomentose (or strigillose) on the veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly impressed to flat above, lateral veins (3-)5-6(-7) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-1/2(-2/3) the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched (or faintly branched), tertiary venation scalariform to reticulate, the smaller veins ± prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins; petiole 0.3-1.2 cm long, densely brown hirtellous (or strigillose), the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.3-)1-2 cm long, brown hirtellous on the keel and the base, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 12) clustered, also on minute spurs on the older wood; (sub)sessile; basal bracts 1-2 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.3-0.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.1 mm long stipitate, brown subtomentose, yellow to orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 0.5 mm diam., ± sunken, surrounded by a rim; internal hairs abundant. Tepals red.
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