Owenia vernicosa F.Muell.

Tree to 7 m or more tall with bole to 35 cm diam. and spreading limbs; bark pale grey to brown, flaking; heartwood pale brown; leafy shoots 1–2 cm diam., older ones strongly cicatrose. Leaves in dense terminal spirals, 25–35 cm long, 7–15-jugate with terminal process; petiole 8–15 cm long. Leaflets usually opposite, lanceolate, 7–10 cm long, 1–2 cm wide, asymmetric at base, acuminate to emarginate at apex, glabrous usually, shining adaxially; midrib and venation prominent. Thyrses 8–25 cm long with subsquarrose branches. Sepals c. orbicular, 1 mm long. Petals elliptic, c. 2 mm long, cream. Drupe 3–4 cm diam., purplish; infructescence axis often with gall-like swellings.

In Eucalyptus–Acacia communities and grasslands on various substrates, where common and often locally dominant. 

Poisonous. The bark and leaves have been used to poison fish. The bark and leaves have been used in medicine.

Plants are grown from seed. The seed is difficult to germinate.