Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the petioles often prominent. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, solid, minutely whitish puberulous and often also whitish strigillose to subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina ovate to elliptic or to subcordiform, 9-18 by 5-13 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base equilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin entire, flat to slightly revolute; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely substrigillose to subvillous to appressedly puberulous on the main veins (or only the midrib), the basal part of the midrib or also the basal parts of the basal lateral veins densely minutely white puberulous; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 4 or 5 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/2(-2/3) the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins slightly prominent to flat beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins; petiole 1-3.5 cm long, densely minutely white puberulous and also ± sparsely strigillose to subvillous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-0.9 cm long, pale brown to whitish subsericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary; peduncle 0.4-0.8 cm long; basal bracts 3-6 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, (0.7-)1-1.6 cm diam. when dry, c. 1.5-2 cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate, densely whitish floccose-tomentose, glabrescent, but persistent around the ostiole, colour at maturity unknown, apex ± umbonate to apiculate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., ± prominent; internal hairs sparse and short or absent. Tepals red.
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