Litsea connorsii B.Hyland

Tree to 30 m high. Stem usually buttressed. Twigs terete, with straight and tortuous, appressed hairs, eventually ± glabrescent. Leaves: lamina narrowly elliptic to narrowly obovate, 6.5–12 cm long, 2–4 cm wide; underside green, with straight, appressed hairs, eventually ± glabrescent, primary veins 6–9 pairs. Inflorescence a raceme of umbels; umbel peduncle 3.7–15 mm long. Flowers 1–6 per umbel, greenish cream or yellow, perfumed. Male flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.5–3.2 mm long; tepals (4–) 5 or 6 (–8), 1.8–2.6 mm long, 1–2.1 mm wide; stamens 8–13; outer anthers 0.9–1.1 mm long, 0.5–1 mm wide; outer filaments 1.8–2.6 mm long, sometimes glandular; inner filaments shorter, with 2 glands; pistillode present. Female flowers: pedicel + perianth tube 1.6–2.7 mm long; tepals (4–) 6 (–8), 1.3–1.7 mm long, 0.7–1.1 mm wide; staminodes 8–14; outer whorl usually eglandular; inner whorl with 2 glands; ovary 1.1–1.6 mm long, 1–1.3 mm wide, glabrous; style glabrous. Fruit ellipsoidal, 15.5–19 mm long, 8.5–13 mm wide, black; receptacle 5–9.5 mm long, 8–11 mm wide. Cotyledons purple.

Grows in rainforest and rainforest margins, particularly in soils derived from granite and acid volcanic rocks; from 600–1200 m alt.