Hernandia albiflora (C.T.White) Kubitzki

Tree or large shrub to 15 m high. Leaves with petiole c. 1 cm long; lamina ovate, acuminate, 5–22 cm long, appearing glabrous but with sunken multicellular clavate hairs, discolorous. Panicle to 6 cm long; peduncle 1–3 cm long. Involucral bracts narrowly ovate, acute, c. 1 mm long, caducous before flowers mature, green. Bisexual flowers: sessile, subtended by cupule 1–2 mm long; perianth lobes 6–8, ovate, 1–2 mm long, white; stamens 6. Sterile flowers: pedicels c. 1 mm long; buds obovoid, c. 1 mm long, perianth apparently fails to open. Fruit ellipsoidal, 20–25 mm long, dark brown; fruiting cupule membranous, closely enveloping fruit, purplish red; aperture 1–2 mm diam. See also Cooper & Cooper (2004: 229), Zich et al. (2020).

Grows in rainforest on near-coastal hills.