Root-climber. Branchlets drying brown; scars of the leaves prominent. Leafy twigs 1.5-2.5 mm thick, solid, minutely whitish to brownish puberulous to subtomentose. Leaves in lax spirals to distichous; lamina oblong to elliptic, 3-7.5 by 1-4 cm, symmetric, coriaceous, apex shortly and bluntly acuminate to rounded, mostly minutely retuse, base equilateral, obtuse to cuneate, margin entire, slightly revolute (towards the base); both surfaces glabrous, the lower surface tessellate when dry; cystoliths only beneath; midrib slightly prominent above, lateral veins 5-8(-10) pairs, the basal pair up to 1/10-1/3 the length of the lamina, often weakly developed, close to the margin, unbranched, tertiary venation reticulate, the smaller veins (almost) flat beneath, the areoles ± clearly brownish when dry; waxy glands in the axils of the basal lateral veins (only if these veins are well-developed), minute ones in the axils of other lateral veins, or often absent; petiole (0.8-)1-2.5 cm long, 1-1.5 mm thick, (sub)glabrous, the epidermis flaking off; stipules 0.5-1 cm long, (sub)glabrous, caducous. Figs axillary, or just below the leaves, solitary or in pairs, sessile or with a peduncle up to 0.3 cm long; basal bracts c. 1.5 mm long, persistent; receptacle subglobose, 0.7-1 cm diam. when dry, 0.4-1.2 cm long stipitate, (sub)glabrous, colour at maturity unknown, apex convex to slightly umbonate, 1-2 mm diam., slightly prominent; internal hairs sparse and short. Tepals red. Stamen 1.
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