Tree to 30 m high. Stem not buttressed. Twigs terete or fluted, eventually ± glabrescent. Leaves: petiole 3–9 mm long; lamina lanceolate to elliptic, 5.5–11.5 cm long, 1.5–4.5 cm wide, not foveolate, green and glabrous below. Inflorescence axillary and pseudoterminal, c. same length as leaves. Flowers opening quite widely with tepals ± horizontal, pinkish cream, yellow, perfumed. Tepals glabrous abaxially, pubescent adaxially: outer 1.5–2 mm long, 1.2–1.4 mm wide; inner 1.3–1.9 mm long, 0.9–1 mm wide. Anthers 0.5–0.6 mm long, 0.5–0.7 mm wide, mainly glabrous, few hairs adaxially; filaments 0.3–0.5 mm long, pubescent; valves opening outwards; glands 6. Staminodes 3, differentiated. Ovary 0.8–1.3 mm long, 0.6–1.1 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 20–24 mm long, 14–17 mm wide, black, shiny. Cotyledons pink.
Grows in rainforest and other closed forests, usually in the poorer soils derived from sedimentary rocks or deep sands; from sea level to ?700 m alt. In coastal areas it is a very characteristic tree on the margins of littoral rainforest and fringing rainforest on creek banks.
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Rain forest and other closed forest, usually in poorer soils derived from sedimentary rocks or deep sands; a very characteristic tree on the margins of littoral rainforest and fringing rainforest on creek banks; at elevations to around 700 metres.
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