Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1.5-3 mm thick, solid, (rather) densely brown subvillous to strigillose and/or sparsely to densely puberulous with all or most hairs uncinate (and often ± retrorse) and then often only strigillose on or near the nodes, or minutely puberulous to subhispidulous, largely with ± curved hairs, and often strigillose on or near the nodes. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to ovate to oblong to elliptic (or to lanceolate), 2-21 by 1-9 cm, symmetric, coriaceous or subcoriaceous, apex subacuminate to acute or to obtuse, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cordate or to cuneate, margin entire, ± revolute or flat; upper surface (sparsely) puberulous to pubescent, mainly on the veins, glabrescent, lower surface ± densely brownish to whitish puberulous to subtomentose, partly with uncinate hairs, also ± densely to sparsely brownish strigillose to subvillous (or hirtellous), only ± sparsely strigillose on the main veins, or only puberulous with uncinate hairs; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent to flat above, lateral veins 3-6 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/3-2/3 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform to subreticulate, the smaller veins ± prominent to almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and usually also of some other lateral veins; petiole 0.3-1.5 cm long, brownish subvillous to hirtellous, strigillose and/or puberulous with uncinate hairs, the epidermis persistent or (not soon) flaking off; stipules 0.3-1.2 cm long, sparsely to densely whitish to brownish minutely appressed-puberulous and (sparsely) brown strigillose on the keel and/or the base or only brownish strigillose, caducous or subpersistent. Figs axillary and minute on spurs on the older wood, in pairs or (up to 12) clustered; sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.2 cm long; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, persistent or caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.3-0.9 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.9 cm long stipitate, glabrous, sparsely minutely puberulous, ± densely tomentose, or puberulous (mainly) with uncinate hairs, orange to red at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., slightly sunken to flat, usually surrounded by a rim; internal hairs few and small or absent. Tepals red.
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