Tree to 15 m high, deciduous. Branchlets tomentose. Leaves: lamina ovate, oblong, obovate or orbicular, 6–13 cm, rarely to 17 cm long, 3.5–10 cm wide, 1.1–2.2 times as long as wide, truncate or attenuate at base, obtuse, rarely acuminate at apex, concolorous, tomentose, less dense when old; domatia present; petiole 10–40 mm long. Spike dense or open, usually shorter than leaves. Flowers 3–5 mm long, 3–5 mm diam. Calyx densely tomentose or glabrous outside, glabrous or with a few hairs inside; lobes triangular, c. 1.5 mm long and wide. Staminal filaments 2–3 mm long. Disc villous. Style glabrous. Mature fruit ovoid, with or without obscure angles and short beak, 1.5–2.5 cm long, 0.8–1.6 cm diam., succulent, glabrous, puberulous or tomentose, yellow-green; immature fruit prominently longitudinally ridged, beaked. [The above description from the Flora of Australia Volume 18 treatment by Pedley (1990) requires revision to exclude any elements of Terminalia hadleyana subsp. carpentariae which is now treated as a separate species, Terminalia carpentariae following the Australian Plant Census (accessed 1 September 2021)-Editor, 1 September 2021.]
In usually open communities, often in skeletal soil derived from sandstone, though occasionally associated with coastal dunes.
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