Falcatifolium falciforme (Parl.) De Laub.

Large shrub from 1.5 m to occasionally a large tree as much as 36 m tall, more commonly 5-12 m, 4-40 cm diam. Seedling leaves widening gradually from a petiole several mm long to margins parallel in the middle of the leaf, apex more abrupt, acute, apiculate, midrib a low blunt ridge above and a narrow sharp ridge below, slightly revolute, 4-9 by 2-3.5 mm. Juvenile leaves on the first branches only slightly longer and wider than the seedling but soon becoming as much as 12 cm long and more gradually becoming as much as 12 mm wide, the lanceolate apex strongly curved so as to become parallel to the shoot, midribs on either side a weak ridge. Adult shade leaves spreading at a large angle with more or less parallel margins in the centre of the leaves and broadly lanceolate apex which curves strongly forward but still at an angle from the shoot, 4-7 cm by 5-9 mm. Adult sun leaves much more abrupt at both ends so as to form a broad lens shape to almost a parallelogram with rounded corners, 2-4 cm long by 5-7 mm wide, the apex sometimes not bent forward. Pollen cones 2-4 cm long by 2.5-3.5 mm diam. Receptacle of seed-bearing structure 4-5 mm long; mature seed 6-7 mm long, 5 mm wide, and 3.5-4 mm thick, becoming black.

Locally common along ridges as a bushy tree, or in the subcanopy of primary rain-forest, often on podsol sands and kerangas, occasionally on deeper fertile soils where it can be an emergent forest giant; at elevations from 300-2,100 metres.

Can be grown by cuttings or seedlings.