Ardisia pterocaulis Miq.

A shrub. It grows 8 m tall. The twigs have wings. The leaves are alternate and simple. The leaves have hairs underneath. The flowers are about 2 mm across and are pale pink. They are in groups. The fruit are 3 mm across. They are fleshy and white to pink.

An understorey plant in undisturbed to slightly disturbed (open) mixed dipterocarp, swamp and sub-montane forests, growing on alluvial sites near rivers and streams, but also on hillsides and ridges; at elevations up to 1,100 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.