Root-climber. Stem with parts bearing leaves alternated with parts bearing only stipules. Branchlets drying dark brown. Leafy twigs 5-7 mm thick, solid, densely brown strigose to subhirsute to subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong to lanceolate, (15-)20-42 by (6-)8-15 cm, symmetric, subcoriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate to subcaudate, base narrowly (sub)cordate, margin entire, flat to slightly revolute; upper surface sparsely strigillose on the midrib, glabrescent, lower surface strigose to sparsely (sub)hispidulous, on the veins and on the midrib also strigillose (glabrescent) or subhirsute, scabridulous; cystoliths on both surfaces; midrib prominent above, lateral veins 10-16 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/6 the length of the lamina, branched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and most of the other lateral veins; petiole (0.5-)1-3 cm long, densely brown hirtellous to subvillous, the epidermis persistent; stipules 1-3 cm long, brown sericeous, subpersistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 8) clustered and on up to 0.5 cm long spurs on the older wood; sessile; basal bracts 1-1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.4-0.5 cm diam. when dry, non-stipitate to up to 0.1 cm long stipitate, brown hirtellous, yellowish (?) at maturity, apex convex, ostiole c. 0.5 mm diam., slightly sunken; internal hairs absent. Tepals red.
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