Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, densely brown puberulous to hirtellous to subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to cordiform or to elliptic, 3-10 by 2-7 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, subcordate to rounded (to obtuse), margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface puberulous to hirtellous to strigillose, scabridulous to smooth, sometimes ± bullate, lower surface ± densely dark brown tomentose to hirtellous to substrigillose on the veins; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± prominent above, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often also in the axils of some other lateral veins and the axils of branches of the lateral veins; petiole 1-1.5(-1.8) cm long, ± densely dark brown puberulous to subvelutinous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 0.3-0.8 cm long, brown (to partly whitish) hirtellous to subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.5 cm long; basal bracts 1.5-2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or substipitate, densely brown to whitish (minutely) puberulous to tomentose, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± umbonate to convex, ostiole 1-1.5 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs rather sparse. Tepals red(dish).
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