Shrub or small tree to 6 m high. Branchlets cream to tan-yellow, glabrous. Leaves coriaceous; petiole 2–24 mm long, brown to olive-green; lamina length/petiole length ratio 5.1–22.7; lamina elliptic-oblong, oblanceolate or obovate, rarely ± falcate, 30–172 mm long, 12–64 mm wide, base acute to attenuate, margin flat to recurved (rarely revolute), tip acute to rounded, rarely retuse, midrib below strongly raised at lamina base (height less than width), venation with tertiary (rarely quaternary) vein orders distinct, lower surface pale green-yellow, glossy, often drying pale brown. Male flowers: pedicel 1.5–5 mm long; sepals 1–3 mm long; petals 2–2.5 mm long; disc rounded. Fruit depressed-globose, ovoid or rounded, 9–12 mm long, 11–13.5 mm diam.
Grows in ‘dry’ rainforests (araucarian microphyll or complex notophyll vineforests and semi-evergreen vinethickets) on a variety of substrates derived from andesites, basalts or metamorphics, at altitudes 40–500 m.
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