Tree small, hemi-epiphytic. Branches drying brown to dark grey. Leafy twigs 2-4 mm thick, ± angular, glabrous; periderm persistent. Leaves spirally arranged; lamina subobovate to obovate, 4-9 by 1.5-4.5 cm, coriaceous, apex rounded, base obtuse, margin revolute or flat; both surfaces glabrous; midrib (at least the lower part) ± impressed above, lateral and smaller veins or also the apex of the midrib invisible; waxy gland at the base of the midrib; petiole 0.5-1 cm long, 1.5-2 mm thick, glabrous, drying brown; stipules 0.5-1(-1.2) cm long, glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, paired (or solitary), sessile; basal bracts 3, 3-5 mm long, (sub)equal, glabrous, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.8-1 cm diam. when dry, glabrous, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex, ostiole c. 2 mm diam., flat, closed, the 3 upper ostiolar bracts imbricate; wall (almost) smooth when dry; internal hairs absent. Tepals reddish. Ovary partly red.
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