Trees to 15 m tall, without buttresses, the young branches sparsely puberulous, soon glabrous, with small prominulous lenticels. Stipules lanceolate, membraneous, tomentellous, to 5 mm long, very early caducous. Leaves chartaceous to thinly coriaceous, oblong, 4-11 by 1.8-4.2 cm, glabrous above, with stomatal crypts filled with lanate pubescence beneath, rounded to acute (or rarely bluntly acuminate) at apex, subcuneate at base; midrib plane or prominulous, sparsely tomentellous when young above, prominent beneath; primary veins 10-17 pairs, curved at margins; secondary nerves reticulate slightly flattened, with a series of marginal glands at veins on lower portion; petioles 5-10 mm long, tomentellous, terete, with 2-4 prominent, conspicuous glands near mid point. Inflorescence of spreading terminal and subterminal panicles, 5-11 cm long, the rachis and branches rather sparsely grey-brown tomentellous; bracts and bracteoles large, ovate, 2.5-3 mm long, tomentose, caducous. Receptacle campanulate, 2-3 mm long, tomentose on exterior; pedicels 0.5-1 mm long. Calyx lobes triangular, acute, c. 1 mm long, tomentose on exterior, tomentellous within. Petals 5, white, acute. Fertile stamens 7-9, with tooth-like staminodes opposite, lanate around base. Ovary villous. Style villous lanate on lower portion, glabrous above; stigma capitate. Fruit ovoid, epicarp sparingly lenticellate.
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A small tree up to 10-15 m tall. It is often only 3 m tall but can be 34 m tall. It has an open growth habit. The bark is greyish-brown and cracked along its length. The small branches are angular, drooping and hairy. The leaves are narrow, oval and leathery. They are 3.5-8 cm long by 2-4.5 cm wide. They are dark green and smooth on the upper surface and paler with dense white hairs underneath. Under the leaf the midrib is prominent and the veins are like a net. The tip of the leaf has a blunt point. The leaf stalk is short. Flowers are brownish yellow and very small. They occur at the ends of branches and in the axils of upper leaves. The fruit is smallish (2 cm x 3 cm) and brownish. It hangs on the ends of the branches. The fruit has a slightly rough skin due to a brown scaly like layer. The fruit is edible. Inside the fruit is a rough kernel.
Pending. See Koch (1992: 281); Cooper & Cooper (2004: 121); Kerrigan & Dixon (2011: 3); F.A. Zich et al., Parinari nonda, in Australian Tropical Rainforest Plants (2020); Parinari nonda, in FloraNT-Northern Territory flora online (accessed 6 March 2022).
A tropical plant. The tree grows in lowland areas from 6 to 1300 m altitude in Papua New Guinea. It occurs in moist rainforest and open woodland. It is often in dunes behind sandy beaches. It occurs in northern Australia. It suits seaside dry tropical regions. It can tolerate drought. It needs full sun.
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Monsoonal areas in open Eucalyptus forest, or dry scrub. Undulating to hilly plateaux of either sandstone or basalt and on alluvial plains. Savannah, open forest, forest on rocky areas in lowlands.
Savanna, open forest, forest on rocky areas in lowlands.
Open forest, woodland, monsoon forest, beach forest.
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