Shrubs or small trees to 6(--10) m, dioecious, trunk to 3.8 dm diam. Bark purplish brown, thin, scaly. Branches stout, spreading. Leaves 1--2.6(--2.9) cm ´ 1--2(--2.2) mm, mostly slightly falcate, light green with 2 grayish bands abaxially, with cuticular papillae along stomatal bands, dark green adaxially, epidermal cells as viewed in cross section of leaf wider than tall or ± isodiametric. Seed ellipsoid, 5--6 mm.
An understorey plant, found in small, mostly clonal stands in moist, shaded ravines in broad-leaved forests, growing both in open forest habitats and in dense thickets; at elevations up to 30 metres.
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