Tree to 30 m high; bole to 1.2 m diam.; buttresses to 1 m high; bark scaly, grey-brown. Leaves in spirals, fist-shaped in bud, 12–25 cm long, paripinnate, 3–6-jugate, petiole 2–8 cm long; leaflets elliptic to obovate, 5–11 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, asymmetric at base, acuminate at apex, usually glabrous save for domatia in axils of veins on abaxial surface of leaflets. Thyrses to 12 cm long, weakly branched; flowers subsessile, sweetly scented. Calyx cupular, c. 3 mm diam., puberulous outside; margin 4-or 5-lobed. Petals usually 4, oblong-ovate, 5–7 mm long, white to pinkish, adnate basally to staminal tube, glabrous. Staminal tube hairy with 8–10 lobes and anthers. Disc c. 1 mm long. Ovary usually 4-locular; locules usually 2-ovulate. Capsule 4-lobed, ovoid, to 25 mm long, 20 mm diam., pink, glabrous. Seeds c. 4, with basal ‘aril’.
Rain forests on richer soils, it is also found in more open situations. Subtropical and dry rain forests, often on coastal ranges in New South Wales.
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Subtropical and dry rainforest, to 900 m alt.
The timber is rose-scented and durable, used for furniture and carving, being very resistant to termites. The largest tree harvested for timber in New South Wales was recorded as 56.9 m tall with a bole 3.55 m diam. Surviving trees are all smaller.
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