Shrub or tree to 10 m high, deciduous. Branchlets thick, glabrous or with a few scattered hairs. Leaves usually crowded; lamina broadly ovate, elliptic, oblong or obovate, 8–25 cm long, 6–16 cm wide, 1–2 times as long as wide, truncate or shortly attenuate at base, obtuse at apex, discolorous, glabrous; domatia small; petiole 15–50 mm long. Spike open, usually longer than leaves. Flowers 4–8 mm long, 4–6 mm diam. Calyx pubescent outside, glabrous inside; lobes triangular, c. 2 mm long and wide. Staminal filaments 2–3 mm long. Disc villous. Style glabrous. Mature fruit ovoid, usually shortly beaked, 1.5–3.5 cm long, 1–2 cm diam., succulent, tomentose, yellow-green; immature fruit prominently laterally ridged, beaked. [The above description from the Flora of Australia Volume 18 treatment by Pedley (1990) may require further revision to exclude any elements of Terminalia latipes subsp. psilocarpa which is now treated as Terminalia ferdinandiana following the Australian Plant Census (accessed 1 September 2021)-Editor, 1 September 2021.]
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