Beilschmiedia obtusifolia (Meisn.) F.Muell.

Tree to 35 m high. Stem sometimes buttressed. Twigs terete, soon glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 5–22 mm long; lamina elliptic to narrowly obovate, 7–17 cm long, 2–6 cm wide, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence exceeding leaves. Flowers opening widely with tepals remaining ± erect, creamy, perfumed. Tepals pubescent; outer 1.1–1.5 mm long, 1–1.4 mm wide; inner 1.1–1.7 mm long, 1.1–1.5 mm wide. Outer anthers 0.6–0.9 mm long, 0.7–1 mm wide, pubescent; filaments 0.3–0.6 mm long. Inner anthers 0.4–0.8 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, obtuse, very shortly tomentose; filaments 0.5–0.8 mm long; glands present. Staminodes 3, differentiated. Ovary 0.5–0.9 mm long, 0.5–0.8 mm wide, sessile, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 18–24 mm long, 11–15 mm wide, black, sometimes glaucous. Cotyledons cream.

Rain forests in soils derived from a variety of rock types, but reaching its best development in gallery forests in alluvium; at elevations from sea level to 800 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.