Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the leaves ± prominent. Leafy twigs (1.5-)2.5-5 mm thick, hollow or solid, very sparsely whitish to brownish puberulous to glabrous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to subovate to elliptic (to ovate or to lanceolate), (3-)5-20(-25) by (1.5-)2-10(-13) cm, symmetric (or slightly asymmetric), coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral (or inequilateral), rounded to subcordate or to obtuse, margin entire, ± revolute; both surfaces subglabrous (only with minute brown trichomes); cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed above, lateral veins (6-)7-9(-10) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/8 the length of the lamina, often weakly developed, unbranched or faintly branched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate (to subscalariform), the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often inconspicuous; petiole 1-4(-10) cm long, (sub)glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-2 cm long, densely minutely puberulous to glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.2-1 cm long; basal bracts 1.5-2.5(-3) mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose (and non-stipitate) and 0.7-1.5 cm diam. when dry or pyriform (and stipitate) and 8-10 by 3-4.5 cm when dry, minutely whitish puberulous to (sub)glabrous, yellow to orange (or brown) at maturity, apex ± umbonate and ostiole (1-)1.5-2 mm or c. 3 mm diam., often surrounded by 5 ± stiff ± promi-nent upwards pointing bracts; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, pinkish, or red. Stamen 1. Fruits slightly or not compressed, surrounded by a faint margin or not.
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