Sphalmium racemosum (C.T.White) B.G.Briggs, B.Hyland & L.A.S.Johnson

Tree to 30 m tall or more. Leaves narrowly elliptic, 7-20 cm long (including tapering base), acute, basally attenuate, sometimes oblique, entire, rusty-pubescent when young. Inflorescence 6-10-flowered, 2-3 cm long; bracts linear, 2-3 mm long; pedicels 1-2 mm long. Tepals oblong, c. 4.5 mm long, cream-coloured, glabrescent abaxially. Stamens shorter than tepals. Style c. height of stamens; stigma a narrow, bilabiate crest at style apex. Follicle compressed, shortly beaked, oblique, narrowly obovoid, c. 4.5 cm long.

This species grows in granite soils in rainforest, between 500 m and 1200 m.