Shrub or treelet up to 6 m tall with drooping branches, often hemi-epiphytic. Branchlets drying brown to yellowish. Leafy twigs 1-3 mm thick, glabrous or sparsely minu-tely hispidulous (glabrescent), ± angulate, smooth or scabridulous; internodes solid. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to subobovate or lanceolate, 4-15(-26) by 1.5-8(-10) cm, somewhat asymmetric to almost symmetric, coriaceous to subcoriaceous, apex ± abruptly acuminate to subcaudate, base ± inequilateral to almost equilateral, cuneate to obtuse (to rounded), one side ± decurrent, margin (in the upper part) often (sparsely and ± irregularly) coarsely crenate-dentate (to lobate), in the lower part broadly lobate, or entire, flat; upper surface glabrous, smooth, lower surface very sparsely hispidulous on the veins to subglabrous, scabridulous to smooth; cystoliths only beneath; midrib prominent above; lateral veins 6-10 pairs or, if the lamina narrow then up to 17 pairs, the basal pair mostly somewhat different from the other lateral veins, running close to the margin, up to 1/8-1/4 the length of the lamina, unbranched, the other lateral veins departing at angles varying from c. 45° to 90°, tertiary venation loosely scalariform or in small leaves to (sub)reticulate; waxy glands in the axils of one of the basal lateral veins (or of both); petiole 0.3-1(-2 or-3.5) cm long, sparsely minutely hispidulous, the epidermis persistent, sometimes flaking off; stipules amplexicaul, 0.3-0.8(-1) cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or paired, or clustered on spurs, more commonly so on up to 1 cm long spurs below the leaves (ramiflorous); peduncle 0.1-0.4 cm long; peduncular bracts 2 or 3, scattered, 2 (sub)opposite, or 3 in whorl, 0.5-1 mm long; receptacle (sub)globose to ellipsoid, 0.3-0.8 cm diam. when dry, sparsely hispidulous, ± scabrous, often with few lateral bracts, orange to red at maturity, apex convex to slightly umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., often surrounded by a low (lobed) rim; internal hairs absent. Tepals whitish, glabrous. Styles glabrous.
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A fig. It is a shrub or small tree. It grows 2-6 m tall. It can be attached to other plants. The branches are drooping. The leaves are narrowly oval and 5-20 cm long by 2-8 cm wide. The fruit is a fig. It is a flattened round shape and 1 cm across. It grows in the axils of leaves. It is orange-red. There are usually 2-6 fruit together.
Not too dry forest, at elevations up to 1,500 metres. Lowland forest, at elevations up to 1,800 rnetres, chiefly in the undergrowth.
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A tropical plant. It grows in forest up to 1,500 m above sea level.
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