Endiandra acuminata C.T.White

Tree to 30 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs ± terete, pubescent. Leaves: petiole 5–14 mm long; lamina lanceolate, 6.2–10.5 cm long, 2.2–4 cm wide, occasionally tripliveined, not foveolate, usually glaucous and hairy below. Inflorescence pseudoterminal and axillary, c. same length as leaves. Flowers opening widely with tepals often reflexed, cream, pale brown, ± perfumed. Tepals pubescent: outer 2.1–3 mm long, 1.7–2.4 mm wide; inner 1.9–3 mm long, 1.5–2.3 mm wide. Anthers 0.5–0.9 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide, glabrous; filaments 0.3–0.7 mm long, pubescent; valves opening sideways; glands 6. Staminodes 3, differentiated. Ovary 0.5–1.1 mm long, 0.9–1.2 mm wide, sessile or shortly stalked, usually glabrous, style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 30–32 mm long, 17–21 mm wide, blue-black. Cotyledons cream.

Well-developed lowland and mountain rain forests, in soils derived from granite, rhyolite and metamorphic rocks; at elevations from sea level to 1,000 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.