Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the leaves ± prominent. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, hollow or solid, very sparsely minutely puberulous to hispidulous. Leaves distichous; lamina elliptic to oblong to (sub)ovate, 4-12 by 2.5-7 cm, symmetric (or asymmetric), coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate to obtuse or to subacute, base (almost) equilateral, rounded to obtuse or to cordulate, margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface coarsely hispidulous, scabrous, lower surface coarsely hispidulous, scabrous, minutely white puberulous on the rims of the areoles; cystoliths only beneath; midrib almost flat above, lateral veins 7-10 pairs, the basal pair up to c. 1/10-1/4 the length of the lamina, faintly branched, the other lateral veins often furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles foveolate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, inconspicuous; petiole 0.5-1.5 cm long, puberulous to hispidulous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-1.5 cm long, minutely appressed-puberulous, caducous. Figs axillary, solitary; peduncle 0.2-0.3 cm long; basal bracts c. 2 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, c. 3.5-4 cm diam. when dry, 0.7-1.1 cm long stipitate, hispidulous, scabrous, orange to red at maturity, apex and ostiole not seen; internal hairs absent. Tepals pinkish. Stamen 1.
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