Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 1-2 mm thick, solid, brownish to whitish puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to ovate to subovate, (1-)2-5(-8) by (0.5-)1-3.5(-5) cm, ± asymmetric, coriaceous, apex rounded to obtuse, minutely retuse, initially with some hairs in the notch, base mostly inequilateral, the broad side rounded to subauriculate, the narrow side rounded to obtuse, if equilateral, then cordulate to rounded, margin entire, revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely puberulous to strigillose to subhispidulous on the main veins to glabrous, sparsely minutely puberulous on the rims of the areoles, smooth or scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib impressed, also the lateral veins often ± impressed above, lateral veins (3-)4-7 pairs, the basal lateral veins of the broad side of the lamina up to 1/5-1/3(-1/2) the length of the lamina, branched, other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins at the broad side of the lamina, mostly conspicuous, or sometimes also glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins at the narrow side of the lamina or in the axils of other lateral veins; petiole 0.2-1 cm long, puberulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.2-0.8 cm long, sparsely and minutely appressed-puberulous, subpersistent or caducous. Figs cauliflorous on up to 1.5 cm long leafless branchlets with short internodes or axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.3-0.5 cm long; basal bracts 1-3 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose to pyriform, 1-4 cm diam. when dry, 2-5 cm diam. when fresh, 0.2-1 cm long stipitate, sparsely to rather densely whitish to brownish puberulous, orange to red to blackish at maturity, apex ± umbonate to apiculate, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamen 1.
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