Shrub or tree up to 10 m tall, often lianescent and/or hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying pale brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, very sparsely minutely puberulous to glabrous, smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong lanceolate, 3-15(-23) by 1.5-4.5 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex caudate, base almost equilateral, cuneate (to obtuse), margin entire, flat; both surfaces glabrous, smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 6-11(-14) pairs, the basal pair inconspicuous, hardly different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to c. 1/10 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the (other) lateral veins departing from the midrib with wide angles, up to 90°, ± curved to straight, sometimes furcate, tertiary venation (sub)reticulate; one waxy gland in the axil of one of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.2-0.6 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.4-0.8 cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or paired, or ramiflorous, clustered on minute spurs; with a peduncle up to 0.15 cm long or (sub)sessile; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, ± scattered, c. 0.2 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.2-0.3 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, smooth, without lateral bracts, orange to red or pink at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a low and lobed rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish to whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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