It has numerous small rigid elliptic-oblong leaflets with incurved margins, a spreading pubescence, small densely arranged white flowers and small elliptic venose but little thickened glabrous fruits.
Lowland, evergreen, humid, rainforest, sea-level to 150, occ. 600 metres. Often by watercourses, also in swamp forest and the land margin of mangroves. Usually on sandy soils, sometimes saline, rarely on ferrallitic soils at higher altitudes.
Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings. Seeds needs soaking.