Root-climber. Branchlets drying brownish. Leafy twigs 2.5-8 mm thick, solid, sparsely hispidulous and ± scabrous or glabrous and smooth. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to elliptic, 12-21 by 6-10.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex subacuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to cordate, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface (sub)glabrous, lower surface minutely hispidulous on the veins, or on the midrib also sparsely strigillose, ± scabrous, largely by cystolith hairs; cystoliths on both sides; midrib almost flat, the lateral veins slightly impressed to flat, lateral veins 4 (or 5) pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, (faintly) branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins almost flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and usually also of some other lateral veins; petiole 0.8-3 cm long, sparsely hispidulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules c. 2 cm long, strigillose on the keel to subglabrous, caducous. Figs axillary and on spurs up to 0.5 cm long, with subpersistent up to 0.6 cm long stipules, mostly (up to 3) clustered, subsessile; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, persistent or caducous; receptacle subglobose, 0.6-0.8 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate or up to 0.5 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, reddish at maturity, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly sunken, surrounded by a rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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