Ascending, sparsely branched, evergreen, scandent shrub, up to 1.5 m tall. Branches terete, 4–7 mm in diameter, green at first, minutely pubescent, becoming reddish brown and greyish when mature and hairless, basal branches up to 10 mm in diameter; internodes 7–20 mm apart. Adventitious roots thin and reddish at first, becoming greyish and stem-like, forming a network of roots clinging to the rock face and entering crevices. Leaves in upper parts of stems, alternate, sometimes somewhat crowded towards the ends of the branches, heart-shaped (cordate) 65–100 × 45–65 mm, leathery, pale to dark green, somewhat glossy, the blade ascending to horizontal or drooping with yellowish green reticulate veining, prominent on the lower surface; the main vein to the tip of the leaf and 2 basal veins from the base of the leaf, forming a v-shape, the minor veins radiating like branches on a tree; upper surface hairless; lower surface densely and minutely pubescent on veins and densely beset with white dots in between veins, the main vein becoming glabrous with age; base cordate; margin entire to obscurely and shallowly toothed, minutely pubescent; petioles (20–)45–50(–60) long and 3.0–3.5 mm in diameter, ascending spreading, yellowish green to reddish, surface minutely pubescent; the leaf end (apex) acute to subacute. Leaf stipules triangular 26 × 11 mm, fleshy and soon deciduous.

Fruits (figs) in shortly stalked pairs in leaf axils of the current year’s growth, roundish, 8–9 mm long and up to 11 mm in diameter, reddish green, the surface minutely puberulous; the pore at the end of the fruit (receptacle) star-shaped and not raised. Flowering and fruiting time: Can be at any time of the year, but more so in summer.