Shrub to 2.3 m, much-branched, glabrous except staminodes, or branchlets minutely papillose. Branchlets slender, ±striate. Leaves linear, oblong or narrowly elliptic, obtuse to truncate or acute, often mucronate and slightly uncinate, flat or concave, mostly 5-10 mm long and 1-2 mm wide, sometimes larger, sessile. Pedicel and hypanthium together 1-2.5 mm long. Calyx 0.2-0.5 mm long, slightly undulate. Corolla 4-5 mm long; lobes 0.6-0.7 mm wide at base. Stamens c. 1.5 mm long; staminodes narrow, 2 mm long, simple, densely hirsute in lower half. Style 2 mm long. Drupe obovoid-ellipsoidal, 4.5-8 mm long.
Grows on sandstone and granite (rarely laterite) in open forest, woodland and shrubland, and on coastal dunes in shrubland.
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