Shrub to 3 m high. Branchlets tan, glabrous or with scattered to sparse pustular-glandular trichomes, glabrescent. Leaves coriaceous; petiole 3–30 mm long, cream; lamina length/petiole length ratio 4.3–18; lamina oblanceolate to obovate, rarely narrowly elliptic, often weakly falcate, 31–240 mm long, 10–64 mm wide, base acute, acuminate, attenuate or cuneate, margin recurved, tip acute or acuminate, rarely retuse, rounded or truncate, midrib below strongly raised at lamina base (height less than or ± equal to width), venation with tertiary vein orders distinct, lower surface pale green, glaucous, often drying brown. Male flowers: pedicel 10–20 mm long; sepals 2–3.5 mm long; petals 1.4–1.5 mm long; disc annular. Fruit depressed-globose, rounded, 9–11 mm long, 12–15 mm diam.
Grows in subtropical ‘wet’ rainforest (complex notophyll vineforest) or in open forest dominated by eucalypts and with a scrubby rainforest understorey. Substrates are soils derived from basalt, at altitudes 40–950 m.
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