Tree 6-30 m tall. Leaves dorsiventral, 6-30 cm long. Juvenile leaves pinnatipartite with 5-9 ascending oblong-ovate to lanceolate simple lobes 3-11 cm long, 15-30 mm wide. Adult leaves usually entire, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong-obovate, 10-60 (-100) mm wide, or with a few 2-or 3-fid leaves persisting; margins flat or very slightly recurved; surfaces dissimilar, with lower surface rusty brown-sericeous (rarely silver-grey). Conflorescence terminal, erect, usually paniculately 5-16-branched, or sometimes axillary and simple; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 6-14 cm long, acropetal. Flowers acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth pale greenish in bud becoming cream to very pale yellow; style cream. Perianth sericeous to loosely so outside, pilose inside below ovary. Nectary arcuate. Pistil 9-13.5 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter strongly oblique, convex to broadly conical. Follicle compressed-obloid to-obovoid, 13-19 mm long, ±smooth, glabrous, not viscid.
Grows in rainforests and margins, sometimes common in regrowth areas, various sites including ridges and creek banks, often in granitic soils.
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