Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 2-3 mm thick, solid, densely brown puberulous to hirtellous to velutinous or to sparsely puberulous. Leaves in lax spirals; lamina elliptic to oblong to ovate to subovate to cordiform or to suborbicular, 4-14 by 3-10 cm, symmetric, coriaceous (to chartaceous), apex acuminate (mostly shortly and bluntly) to acute to obtuse (to rounded), base equilateral, cordate to rounded to obtuse, margin entire, ± revolute to flat; upper surface hispidulous to puberulous, ± scabrous, lower surface ± densely to sparsely brown to whitish puberulous to substrigillose to subhirtellous on the main veins and densely to rather sparsely white tomentose to tomentellous or to puberulous on the smaller veins or only sparsely appressed-puberulous on the main veins; cystoliths only beneath and sparse or absent; midrib ± impressed (the lower part) to flat (the upper part) above, lateral veins 4-6 pairs, the basal pair up to 1/2-2/3 the length of the lamina, branched, most other lateral veins branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins, often also in the axils of some other lateral veins and the axils of branches or in furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 0.5-2 cm long, ± densely brown puberulous to velutinous, the epidermis persistent (or flaking off); stipules 0.3-0.9 cm long, brown (sub)sericeous, caducous. Figs axillary or just below the leaves, in pairs or solitary, with a peduncle up to 1.2 cm long (or sessile); basal bracts 1.5-3 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1.2(-1.8) cm diam. when dry, 1-1.5(-2) cm diam. when fresh, non-stipitate or substipitate, densely to sparsely brown to whitish (minutely) puberulous to tomentose, pinkish to orange to red-brown to scarlet or to wine-red at maturity, apex ± umbonate, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., slightly prominent to flat; internal hairs abundant. Tepals red(dish). Stamens 2.
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