Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, rather densely puberulous and ± sparsely brown subvillous. Leaves distichous; lamina oblong, 8-18 by 4-8 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex (sub)acuminate, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to subcordate, margin entire, flat or ± revolute towards the base; upper surface glabrous, lower surface sparsely minutely puberulous on the veins and sparsely brownish subvillous to substrigillose on the main veins; cystoliths only beneath; midrib ± impressed above, lateral veins 5-7 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/5-1/3 the length of the lamina, close to the margin or not, branched or unbranched, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath, the areoles small and foveolate beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins; petiole 1-3 cm long, puberulous and sparsely subvillous, the epidermis persistent; stipules (0.8-)1-1.5 cm long, densely minutely whitish appressed-puberulous and brown (sub)strigillose on the keel, caducous. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 6) clustered, also on up to 0.3 cm long spurs on the older wood, sessile; basal bracts c. 1 mm long, (sub)persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.5-0.8 cm diam. when dry, 0.3-0.6 cm long stipitate, often ± pustulate, minutely brown puberulous to subpulverulent, orange at maturity, apex convex, ostiole 0.5-1 mm diam., flat to slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse. Tepals red.
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