Small to medium-sized tree, (10–) 15–25 (–30) m high. Leaves: petiole 3–10 mm long; lamina narrowly elliptic to ovate, 5.5–14 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, shortly attenuate at base, shallowly and finely crenate-serrate except towards base, acuminate at apex, glossy mid-green above, paler below, glabrous; midrib flattened above, raised and prominent beneath; veins flattened and obscure above, raised and well-defined beneath. Inflorescence ± congestedly thyrsiform. Tepals pale green, cream, whitish or creamy-green. Stamens pale green or green-cream. Fruiting hypanthium (7–) 8–15 (–20) mm long. Achenes (4–) 5 (–6) mm long, long-plumose; style (4–) 5–10 (–12) mm long.
Grows in disturbed sub-tropical rainforest and rainforest margins, montane subtropical rainforest, often at the head of damp gullies, at 200–950 m alt.
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