Tree to 18 m high; rachis, bracts and calyx rusty appressed-pubescent, otherwise glabrous. Bark slightly rough, white or grey-brown. Leaves: stipules ovate, rounded, 1.5 mm long, sometimes sparsely hairy, caducous; petiole 2–8 cm long; lamina broadly cordate, 2.5–9 cm long and wide, obtuse or sometimes shortly acuminate, shining above, pale below, 7-veined from base, reticulate between. Racemes commonly 3–12 cm long; bracts ovate to lanceolate, 1.5–2 mm long, caducous; pedicels 1.5–3 mm long. Calyx 1.5–3 mm long, shortly lobed. Petals obovate, yellow turning orange; lamina 2–4 mm long; claw 2–4 mm long. Stamens 10 fertile, 4–7 mm long; anthers 1.3–2 mm long. Pistil 8 mm long, glabrous; stigma not enlarged. Pod elliptic-oblong, ± falcate, 3–4.5 cm long, 1–1.5 cm wide, finely reticulate and spotted, dark brown. Seeds 1 or 2, rarely 3, obloid.
Found in sandstone, granodiorite or basalt, in notophyll vine forest, microphyll vine thicket and softwood scrub.
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