Root-climber. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, brown (sub)strigillose to brownish subtomentose. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate to oblong, 3-11 by 1.2-5.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin entire; upper surface glabrous, lower surface (sub)strigillose on the main veins or also sparsely puberulous on the smaller veins; cystoliths on both sides; midrib prominent above, sometimes raised as a narrow ridge in an impression, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/3-1/2 the length of the lamina, faintly branched, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 0.6-1.2 cm long, brown (sub)strigillose, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.4-1 cm long, (sparsely) brownish (sub)sericeous at least at the apex, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, (also on minute spurs on the older wood?), sessile; basal bracts c. 1.5-2 mm long, caducous (or subpersistent?); receptacle ovoid, subglobose or depressed-globose, 0.5-0.7 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate, glabrous or brownish substrigillose, orange at maturity, apex ± convex or flat, ostiole c. 0.5-1 mm diam., sunken or prominent, surrounded by a low rim; wall rather thick; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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