Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the petioles prominent. Leafy twigs 3-7 mm thick, solid, whitish puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic to subovate, 9-21 by 4.5-10 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex acuminate, base equilateral or slightly inequilateral, cuneate to rounded, often subauriculate, margin entire, revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface glabrous or very sparsely subtomentose on the midrib, tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib flat to slightly impressed above, lateral veins 8-10 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/10-1/5 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 1.5-3.5 cm long, sparsely puberulous to subtomentose to glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 1.5-2.2 cm long, densely minutely appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary or in pairs; peduncle 0.1-0.2 cm long; basal bracts c. 2 mm long, persistent; receptacle ellipsoid, c. 1.5-2.5 cm diam. when dry, substipitate, densely brownish puberulous to subvelutinous, reddish (?) at maturity, apex protracted, c. 1-2 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs absent. Tepals red. Stamen 1.
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