Shrub or small much-branched tree up to 6 m, 15 cm ø. Bark smooth, grey-brown. Branchlets slender, spreading, often drooping, initially densely silvery-hairy, glabrescent and sparsely lenticellate. Stipules linear-lanceolate, 5-7 by 1-2 mm. Leaves chartaceous to thin-coriaceous, narrow ovate-caudate to broad ovate-acute, or elliptic-lanceolate, (3-)5-10(-13) by (l½-)2-4(-5 ½)cm (index 2-3 (-4)), broadest below or at the middle; base rounded to attenuate and acute, rarely subcordate, slightly contracted and more or less symmetrical; margin serrulate to denticulate for its entire length; apex with a sharp tip; above glabrous and variously scabrate, beneath glabrous or sparsely appressed-hairy; midrib and nerves raised beneath, impressed above; nerves (2-)3-4(-5) pairs, arcuate and sub-parallel, basal ones running up to ± ⅔ the length of the leaf; reticulations fine, subscalariform, obscure to visible beneath; petiole (5—)8—12(—15) by 1-2 mm, glabrescent. Inflorescence ♂ or ♂♀, with slender axes, 10-15-flowered, at anthesis lax, c. l-2½ cm long, densely greyish appressed-hairy; bracts ovate-acute, c. 2-3 by 1 mm. ♂ Flowers c. 1-2 mm Ø, outside sparsely hairy, glabrescent; perianth lobes 4-5, membranous, oblong-lanceolate, c. 1-1½ by ½-l mm; filaments c. 1 mm, anthers c. 1 by ½ mm; pistillode obovoid, compressed, c. 1 by ½ mm. ♀ Flowers c. 1½-2 by 1-1½ mm; perianth lobes mostly 5, membranous, glabrous, ovate-acute, c. 1-1 ½ by ½ mm; staminode absent; ovary c. 1 by ½ mm; stigmatic arms spreading or incurved. Drupe 2-3 by 2 mm, turning deep-orange or red when ripe. Endosperm copious.
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A shrub or small tree. It grows 6 m tall. The leaves are 4-16 cm long by 1-6 cm wide.
Common as a pioneer in newly opened up habitats along roadsides, edges of forests, re-growths, thickets, and in young secondary vegetation, from sea-level up to 1200 m. Fl. fr. Jan.-Dec. At least in Malaya pollination is affected by wind and by small insects (diptera). Ripe fruits are dispersed by various species of bulbuls.
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Sunny moist forests, scrub on sunny slopes, riversides and open places at elevations of 100-1,100 metres in southern China.
Grows in lowland and upland rainforest on a variety of sites; from near sea level to 950 m alt. Favours disturbance.
It is a tropical plant. It grows between 100-1,100 m above sea level.
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