Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the leaves prominent. Leafy twigs 2-7 mm thick, solid, brownish puberulous to subtomentose to subvillous. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, 11-31 by 3-8.5 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, obtuse to narrowly truncate, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface (sparsely) subtomentose to pilose on the (main) veins, tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent to flat above, lateral veins 10-14 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/20-1/10 the length of the lamina, poorly developed, running rather close to the margin, (faintly) branched or unbranched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate, tertiary venation (sub)scalariform, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles ± clearly brownish when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins or also of some other lateral veins; petiole 2-7.5 cm long, subtomentose to subvillous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-2.5 cm long, sparsely, but along the margin densely minutely appressed-puberulous, and on the keel and the apex brown strigillose, (sub)persistent. Figs on short leafy twigs, terminated with a tuft of persistent stipules, solitary; peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long; basal bracts c. 2 mm long, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid, 2-3.5 cm diam. when dry, up to 0.5 cm long stipitate, sparsely brownish puberulous to sub-strigillose, reddish at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamens 1 (or 2).
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