Shrub to tree, 2-10 m tall. Leaves unifacial, detaching readily, entire, 6.5-40 cm long, 6-50 mm wide, obliquely narrowly elliptic to obovate, usually falcate; edges flat (true margins obscure); surface longitudinally veined and glabrous to inconspicuously open-sericeous. Conflorescence terminal or rarely axillary, erect, paniculate with 3-11 spreading branches or occasionally unbranched; secondary peduncles with black triangular bases; unit conflorescence cylindrical, 12-15 cm long, acropetal. Flowers ±acroscopic. Flower colour: perianth and style greenish white to cream or pale yellow. Perianth glabrous outside, papillose to pubescent inside. Nectary U-shaped. Pistil 5-11 mm long, glabrous; pollen-presenter erect to moderately oblique, conical. Follicle compressed-ellipsoidal to-obovoid, 14-25 mm long, glabrous, ±smooth, caustic-viscid when young.
Grows in tall open shrubland or eucalypt woodland, often in seasonally inundated areas, in heavy textured clay-to gravel-loams or sandy clays over laterite, basalt, argillaceous limestone or occasionally sandstone.
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