Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, solid, rather densely brown puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate to lanceolate, 6-14 by (1.5-)2-6 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, the acumen shortly mucronate, base equilateral, rounded to obtuse, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths on both sides; midrib slightly impressed to flat above, lateral veins 6 or 7 (or 8) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/6-1/4 the length of the lamina, close to the margin, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller (almost) flat beneath, the areoles brownish beneath when dry; cystoliths on both sides; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, small; petiole 0.4-1 cm long, tomentose to tomentellous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.6 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary, in pairs or (up to 4) in clusters; with a peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long or sessile; basal bracts 0.5-1 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.3-0.4 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous, yellow (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 0.5 mm diam., ± sunken, sometimes surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamens 2.
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