DistributionIn the Hawaiian Islands, endemic to Hawai`i.
HabitatGrouped around brackish water ponds near sea level to scattered or grouped in dry to moist forest
Elevation0-700 m
Habit
To 10 m tall.
Leaves
Persistent leaves often forming a skirt, proximal margins of petiole with a few to moderate hair-like fibers; leaf blade diamond-shaped in outline and strongly folded from lateral compression, divided 1/2, slightly waxy-glaucous, abaxial surface incompletely covered with scattered lepidia, segment tips mostly stiff, occasionally drooping.
Flowers
Inflorescences composed of 1-5 panicles, shorter than to equaling petioles in flower and fruit, panicles branched to 2 orders, rachillae glabrous.