Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown to blackish. Leafy twigs 3-6 mm thick, hollow or solid, ribbed, densely brown hirtellous to subhirsute to subvillous (or to subvelutinous), the longer and stiff hairs often with ± swollen bases. Leaves distichous; lamina subovate (to ovate or to lanceolate) to oblong (to elliptic), 9-30 by 4.5-11 cm, symmetric, (sub)coriaceous, apex subacuminate to subacute, base (almost) equilateral, cordate to rounded (or to obtuse), margin entire, ± revolute; upper surface brown hirtellous to puberulous or strigillose, mainly in the main veins, glabrescent, often ± bullate, lower surface ± densely hirtellous to subhirsute or to subtomentose (or strigillose) on the veins, the longer and stiff hairs distributed evenly (and with their bases not strongly swollen) to ± unevenly (clustered, and their bases strongly swollen); cystoliths on both sides; midrib impressed, at least the lower part, other main veins (and smaller) often slightly impressed above, lateral veins 6-10 pairs, prominent beneath, the basal pair up to 1/6-1/3 the length of the lamina, branched, the other lateral veins often branched or furcate far from the margin, tertiary venation scalariform, prominent beneath, the smaller veins ± prominent beneath, the areoles often minutely bullate; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins and also of some other lateral veins and in the axils of branches or in furcations of the lateral veins; petiole 1-3(-4) cm long, densely brown hirtellous to subhirsute (or strigillose), the epidermis persistent or not soon flaking off; stipules (0.5-)1-3 cm long, densely to sparsely whitish minutely appressed-puberulous and brown substrigillose to hirtellous on the keel and at the base, caducous or subpersistent. Figs axillary, in pairs or (up to 8) clustered, also on up to 1 cm long spurs on the older wood, often with up to 0.6 cm long subpersistent stipules at the apex; peduncle 0.1-0.7 cm long (or sessile); basal bracts 1.5-2 mm long, caducous; receptacle subglobose to ovoid (or ellipsoid), 0.3-1.3 cm diam. when dry, 0.8-1.8 cm diam. when fresh, 0.1-1 cm long stipitate, brownish subtomentose to puberulous or glabrous (and then often pustulate), yellow to orange to crimson at maturity, apex ± umbonate or convex and the ostiole surrounded by a rim, ostiole c. 1 mm diam., ± sunken; internal hairs abundant, sparse and small, or absent. Tepals red.
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