Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, whitish puberulous to subhispidulous. Leaves distichous; lamina lanceolate, 9-15 by 2.5-4, (almost) symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base equilateral, obtuse and auriculate, margin revolute; upper surface (sub)glabrous, ± bullate, lower surface puberulous to subhispidulous to subtomentose on the main veins, sparsely minutely puberulous on the rims of the areoles, scabridulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib deeply impressed, also other veins ± impressed, lateral veins 9-12 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/20-1/10 the length of the lamina, short, unbranched, other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins prominent beneath, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-2.2 cm long, puberulous to subhispidulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.6-1 cm long, sparsely appressed-puberulous, caducous (or subpersistent as on the fig-bearing spurs). Figs cauliflorous on up to 4 cm long spurs with subpersistent stipules, solitary; peduncle 0.1-0.5 cm long; basal bracts 1-2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 1.3-2 cm diam. when dry, 0.3-1.2 cm long stipitate, sparsely brownish puberulous, yellow (?) at maturity, apex umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., surrounded by a low rim; internal hairs sparse. Tepals red. Stamen 1.
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