Syncarpia glomulifera Nied.

Tree, rarely shrub, up to 10 m high; bark fibrous, deeply furrowed, grey on surface, brown below. Leaves opposite when young, later forming pseudowhorls; glabrous. Flowers in a 7-flowered (or fewer by abortion) dichasium; sessile, basally connate. Petals 4 or 5, white, orbicular, caducous. Stamens many, free, much longer than petals. Ovary inferior, 3(4)-locular. Flowering time Nov.? Fruit capsular, fruiting hypanthia, connate, forming a woody, compound fruit. Seeds narrowly cuneate.

Thrives best in valleys, on flats and in basins in locations varying from coastal lowlands to mountains and tablelands. Often grows as an emergent near the margins of rainforest or in wet sclerophyll forest, often on heavier soils.

Can be grown by seedlings.