Shrub to 3 m. Branchlets angular becoming terete, sometimes pendulous. Leaves narrowly linear, semi-terete, mucronate, 1-5 cm long, 0.5-1 mm thick, soft. Male flowers in umbels of up to 5; peduncle 4-10 mm long; bracts navicular, acute, to 1.5 mm long, caducous; pedicels 1-4 mm long; tepals ovate, obtuse, 2 mm long. Female flowers solitary or in 2-or 3-flowered umbels; peduncle 5-20 mm long; bracts ovate, caducous; pedicels 5-20 mm long; tepals oblong-ovate, 1.5-2 mm long; ovary broadly cylindrical, 1.5 mm long. Drupe ellipsoidal, 5-9 mm long; endocarp smooth or sometimes obscurely pitted.
Grows in sandy soil and in sandstone and laterite, usually in open woodland, rarely in heath, fringing forest and near mangroves.
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