[Habitat acc. to label:] Local in Drypetes-Haplocoelum-Mimusops-Fagara spp., evergreen forest on coral crag. [Description acc. to label:] A laxly branched evergreen tree up to 40 ft. tall with spreading rounded crown and ultimate branchlets pendulous. bark browninsh-grey, rough but not conspicously fissured, leaf-lets paired on a long petiole and petiolule conspicous; flowers densely clustered form spurs on the older branches and from the young branchlets, yellow-green. Not in fruit. Bole more or less irregular branching at about 6 ft. Coppice shoots with pencil thick or more spines up to 6 in. long very sharp.