Glabrous shrub to 2 m high, monoecious. Branchlets to 6 cm long, ribbed, glabrous or ribs sometimes papillose. Stipules erect to spreading, narrowly triangular, 0.6–1.7 mm long. Stem leaves scale-like. Branchlet leaves: petiole 0.4–1.4 mm long; lamina elliptic or narrowly obovate to obovate, 7–34 mm long, 1.5–13 mm wide, obtuse, mucronate, discolorous, mostly glaucous abaxially. Male flowers: 1–4 per fascicle; peduncles to 2.5 mm long; pedicels 2–10 mm long; sepals elliptic, 1.5–2.2 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, obtuse or acute; filaments and connectives connate; androphore 1.5–1.7 mm long; anthers linear, c. 1.4 mm long, sometimes apically free. Female flowers: solitary; pedicels 2–15 mm long, elongating to 25 mm in fruit; sepals obovate, 1.2–3 mm long, 1–1.2 mm wide, obtuse, green with white margin; ovary ovoid, glabrous; stigmas free, spreading, shortly bifid. Capsule subglobose, 4.5–8 mm diam., glabrous, green to brown. Seeds 4–5.2 mm long, pitted in longitudinal lines, cream to pale brown.
Grows in open forest or on rainforest margins, often on creek banks, in a variety of soils including those derived from sandstone and basalt, to 450 (–900) m altitude.
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