Shrubs or trees 3-10 m tall, monoecious, glabrous except for petioles and ovary pubescent to glabrous; branches angular, brown when dry; branchlets slender, spreading. Stipules triangular, ca. 1 mm; petiole 2-4 mm, puberulent to glabrous; leaf blade lanceolate or elliptic, sometimes falcate, 3-12 × 1.5-3 cm, papery or subleathery, abaxially gray-white, adaxially gray-green, base broadly cuneate, apex acuminate or shortly so; lateral veins 5-7 pairs, elevated below. Flowers in axillary clusters, with 2 bracts at base, male in proximal axils, female in distal axils. Male flowers: pedicels 5-8 mm, connate. Female flowers subsessile; sepals as in male; ovary depressed globose, puberulent to glabrous, 4-6-locular; style column prominently clavate, 3-6-fid at apex. Capsules depressed globose, 1-1.5 cm in diam., brown when dry, 4-6-grooved, with persistent sepals at base. Fl. Mar-May, fr. Apr-Oct.
Locally common, in disturbed lower montane forest, old clearings in evergreen forest, mixed deciduous forest, dry dipterocarp forest, open Quercus-dipterocarp forest, growing along streams; at elevations from 200-2,000 metres.
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