Shrub or treelet up to 5 m tall, often hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying pale brown to greyish. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, brownish hispidulous to subglabrous, ± scabrous to smooth; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, (12-)20-36 by 5-12 cm, (almost) symmetric, subcoriaceous to coriaceous, apex acuminate to caudate, base inequilateral, one side cuneate to obtuse, and often subauricate, the other side decurrent to near the base of the petiole and distinctly auriculate with the lobe (partly) covering the petiole, margin entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface very sparsely hispidulous to (sub)glabrous, ± scabrous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 10-20 pairs, the basal pair hardly or slightly different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to c. 1/10 the length of the lamina, unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins and smaller ones in the axils of several other lateral veins; petiole 0.2-1 cm long, glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, (0.5-)1-2 cm long, minutely puberulous or glabrous, striate, aristate, subpersistent. Figs axillary, solitary, paired, mostly ramiflorous, clustered on spurs or tubercles; with a peduncle of 0.1-0.5 cm long or (sub)sessile; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, at the base of the peduncle, 0.2-0.5 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose, 0.3-0.5 cm diam. when dry, hispidulous, scabridulous, 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, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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