Gomphandra australiana F.Muell.

Tree, 6-25 m, sometimes with buttresses up to 3 m high. Branchlets generally quite glabrous. Leaves oblong-to ovate-elliptic, apex shortly, bluntly and gradually, more rarely ± abruptly acuminate, base broadly cuneate to almost rounded slightly inequilateral, coriaceous, practically glabrous, (6-)10-17(-20) by 5-7(-8) cm, dull greenish-olivaceous when dry, the undersurface often minutely tubercled, nerves (4-)5-6 curved-ascending pairs, hardly depressed above, slightly prominent beneath, veins lax, rather obscure; petiole (0.7-) 1-1.5 cm by 1.5-2 mm. ♂ Inflorescences consisting of 2 or 3 divaricate (3-)5-7-flowered cymes, together on peduncle 0.5-1 cm, covered with short substrigose hairs, the petals excepted. Calyx cup-shaped, hardly dented, 1-1.3 mm. Petals white or greenish, coherent in the lower ⅔ for a long time into a narrow-campanulate tube 2.5-3 mm. Stamens hardly or not exserted; filaments widened upwards, 2-2.3 mm, glabrous; anther cells 1 mm. Rudiment of ovary glabrous. ♀ Inflorescences with 2-4 flowers on top of slender peduncle (c. 1 cm). Calyx and petals as in ♂ flowers. Staminodes present. Ovary glabrous. Drupe ellipsoid, obtuse at both ends, pale reddish, with 12-15 rather marked longitudinal ridges down to the very base, 1.8-2 (-2.3) by 1-1.2 cm.

It is a tropical plant. It grows from sea level to 300 m above sea level. It is an understory tree in the tropical rainforest.