Scrambling shrub or bushy tree with several stems from the base, (0.3–)1.8–6 m. tall; bark pale brown, becoming grey and fissured; young stems ridged, grey, densely pubescent with adpressed white hairs and longer spreading ones, later glabrescent.. Leaf-blades pale green in life, obovate-oblong, 1.7–7.5(–10) cm. long, 1–5.3 cm. wide, rounded to acute at the apex, ± cuneate at the base, entire to shallowly crenate towards apex, ± fleshy, obscurely scabrid above with cystoliths but no rough hairs, glabrous or pubescent, adpressed pubescent beneath or almost glabrous; petiole 6–11(–15) mm. long, ± pilose.. Flowers sweet-scented, opening in the evening, sessile in condensed cymes arranged in small inflorescences ± 6 cm. wide; peduncles ± 3 cm. long, with secondary axes ± 1.5 cm. long.. Male: calyx campanulate; tube 3–6 mm. long, constricted near the base when dry, sparsely pubescent outside, shortly adpressed pilose inside with 2–3 semicircular lobes ± 1 mm. long; corolla cream or yellowish, glabrous outside; tube cylindrical, 6 mm. long; lobes oblong-obovate, 6 mm. long, 2.5 mm. wide, narrowed below; stamens exserted; filaments 2.5–3.5 mm. long with adpressed part pilose; rudimentary ovary depressed globose, 1 mm. tall, 1.5 mm. wide; style obsolete.. Female: calyx campanulate; tube 4 mm. long; lobes 1 mm. long; corolla-tube fusiform, 5 mm. long; lobes narrowly obovate-oblong, 3.5 mm. long, 1.3 mm. wide; filaments 1 mm. long with adnate part shortly pilose; anthers present but sterile; ovary fusiform, 4 mm. long, 1.5 mm. wide; style stout, 1–2 mm. long, with branches 1.5–2.5 mm. long, the 4 stigmatic branches ± 3.2 mm. long.. Fruit orange, ovoid-conic, 1–1.7 cm. long including the long-drawn-out acute beak, sitting in the 7–11 mm. wide, venose accrescent calyx.. Fig. 5/1, 2, p. 24.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 5 m tall. It can have spreading branches or branches that lie over. The bush is about 3 m across. The small branches have a dense white covering of hairs. The leaves are sword shaped and 7 cm long by 2.5 cm wide. There can be rounded teeth towards the tip. The base is wedge shaped. The leaves are slightly hairy on top. The flowers are in dense groups towards the ends of branches. They are white and have a scent. The fruit are orange. They are edible.
Sandy open areas near the high-tide mark, dunes, thickets on coral rag and other coastal bushland, also open Acacia scrub on red sandy soils; at elevations up to 150 metres.
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A tropical plant. It grows near the coast. It can grow on sand dunes.
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