Croton arnhemicus Müll.Arg.

Shrub to 5 m high. Indumentum ferruginous-silver. Branchlets with dense overlapping stellate trichomes, glabrescent. Stipules linear to linear-lanceolate, 1.7–11 mm long, entire. Leaf lamina elliptic, orbicular, ovate or obovate, 20–240 mm long, 10–200 mm wide; base cordate, cuneate, rounded or truncate; margins denticulate to weakly crenate with 30–50 [inconsistent with key to spp. step 9-Editor] teeth; tip acute to rounded; venation palminerved with 3–5 veins from base and 5–7 lateral veins per side of midrib further up lamina, tertiary reticulate veins present; lower surface ferruginous-silver, lateral and reticulate venation prominent, with sparse to dense overlapping stellate trichomes, often velutinous; extrafloral nectaries 2 at lamina base, ellipsoid, sessile or stipitate to 1 mm long, visible above and below. Male flowers: pedicels 1.5–10 mm long; sepals lanceolate-ovate to ovate, 2–4.5 mm long; petals oblanceolate to ovate, 2–4.2 mm long; stamens 20–44. Styles 3, bifid once. Fruit trilobate, globose, 6–11 mm long, 7–11 mm diam., with dense sessile and stalked stellate trichomes.

Grows in deciduous vine thickets or in open eucalypt woodland, on a variety of soil types but often derived from hard red laterites or limestone.