Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish; scars of the petioles often prominent. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, minutely brownish puberulous often sparsely brown substrigillose. Leaves distichous or in lax spirals; lamina (sub)ovate to elliptic to oblong, (2-)4-9 by (1-)2-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate (to acute), base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cordate or to obtuse, margin entire, flat or slightly revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous or sparsely puberulous to substrigillose, glabrescent, lower surface (very) sparsely appressed-puberulous to subtomentose, on the main veins to substrigillose; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 3-5(-6) pairs, the basal pair up to (1/4-)1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation reticulate to subscalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, sometimes inconspicuous; petiole (0.3-)1-2.5(-3.5) cm long, brown puberulous to subtomentose and partly substrigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.3-0.8 cm long, brownish to greyish subsericeous to hirtellous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.3-1.5 cm long; basal bracts 1-2 mm long, persistent, often ± deflexed; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-1 cm diam. when dry, 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or substipitate, sparsely to densely whitish to brownish appressed-puberulous, orange to red to blackish at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., ± prominent to flat: internal hairs sparse and short or absent. Tepals red.
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