Much branched shrub (sometimes creeping) or tree up to 8 m tall. Leafy twigs 1.5-4 mm thick, densely dark brown to purplish hirtellous to subhirsute or strig(ill)ose, the stiff coloured hairs often intermixed with much shorter white hairs, conspicuous lenticels just below the (scars of the) stipules; internodes solid. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina oblong to subobovate (to elliptic or to lanceolate), (1-)3-18 by (0.5-)1.5-6 cm, symmetric to slightly asymmetric, chartaceous, apex acuminate, base rounded to subcordate (or to cuneate), margin ± coarsely dentate to lobate, or partly denticulate; upper surface brown to whitish strigillose, ± scabrous, lower surface dark brown to purplish hirtellous to subhirsute or strig(ill)ose to puberulous on the veins, the stiff coloured hairs often intermixed with much shorter white hairs, ± scabrous; cystoliths only beneath or also sparsely above; lateral veins (3-)6-10 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/8-1/6 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform (to subreticulate); waxy glands absent; petiole (0.2-)0.5-1.5(-3.5) cm long, distinctly different to almost equal in length on the same twig, brown hirtellous to strigillose, the stiff coloured hairs often intermixed with much shorter white hairs, the epidermis flaking off; stipules semi-amplexicaul, 0.2-0.8 cm long, brown strigillose, subpersistent or caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or solitary, ramiflorous on spurs on the lesser branches, or cauliflorous, on up to 3.5 cm long branched leafless branchlets with short internodes, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long; peduncular (or basal) bracts 2 or 3, 0.5-1.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.4-0.7 cm diam. when dry, dark brown to purplish setulose (the hairs patent to appressed), with few up to 1.5 mm long lateral bracts, red at maturity, apex ± convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a rosette of up to 1 mm long (oblong and rather thin) apical bracts, pointing upwards; internal hairs abundant, white or brown. Tepals reddish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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