Medium-sized to large tree to 30 m high. Forming a lignotuber.Bark rough to the small branches, shortly fibrous and generally furrowed, grey to brown. Glands (or ducts) sometimes present in the pith but only seen just below the nodes on young branchlets.Juvenile growth (coppice or field seedlings to 50 cm): stem rounded in cross-section, pubescent or glabrous; juvenile leaves opposite, petiolate or sessile, cordate to oblong to narrowly lanceolate to ovate, 4.5–12 cm long, 2–5 cm wide, base amplexicaul to rounded, margin entire or rarely finely toothed, apex acute, green, pubescent or glabrous.Adult leaves opposite, petioles 0.6–1.5 cm long; blade narrowly lanceolate to ovate, occasionally falcate, 5.5–15 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, flat to undulate, base tapering to petiole or rounded, margin entire, apex acute, discolorous, glossy green to dull grey-green, penniveined, densely to very densely reticulate, intramarginal vein present, oil glands island.Inflorescence terminal compound, peduncles 1–3.3 cm long, buds 3 or 7 per umbel, pedicellate (pedicels 0.3–0.9 cm long). Mature buds globular (0.3–0.5 cm long, 0.3–0.5 cm wide), hypanthium pubescent or glabrous, longitudinally ribbed, petals white with a green keel, stamens inflexed, anthers oblong, versatile, dehiscing by longitudinal slits (non-confluent), style long, stigma blunt, mop-like, locules 3 or 4, the placentae each with 5 vertical ovule rows. Flowers white or creamy white.Fruit pedicellate (pedicels 0.3–1.4 cm long), barrel-shaped to cup-shaped, (0.6–) 0.7–1.2 cm long, 0.7–1.1 cm wide, longitudinally ribbed, disc descending, valves 3 or 4, enclosed.Seeds reddish brown to brown, 5.5–7 mm long, flattened-ellipsoidal, dorsal surface smooth, hilum ventral.
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A tree. It grows 30 m tall.
Sub-coastal districts, especially on alluvial flats, also to 1,200 metres in New South Wales. Found in a variety of habitats, usually on shales and alluvial soils.
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Sub-coastal districts, especially on alluvial flats, also to 1200 metres in New South Wales. Found in a variety of habitats, usually on shales and alluvial soils.
Grows in alluvial soil, sandy loam and sand in open forest and woodland on undulating country and on plains.
It is a subtropical plant.
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