Terminalia oblongata F.Muell.

Shrub or tree to 15 m high, deciduous. Branchlets appressed pubescent, glabrescent. Leaves: lamina obovate, elliptic or oblong, 1.5–6 cm long, 0.5–2.5 cm wide, 2–4 times as long as wide, attenuate at base, sometimes decurrent along petiole, obtuse, occasionally retuse at apex, discolorous, ± glabrous; domatia absent; petiole 3–20 mm long. Spike open, longer than leaves. Flowers 5–8 mm long, c. 5 mm diam. Calyx often glabrous outside (almost glabrous or thinly pubescent outside), villous inside; lobes triangular, 1.5 mm long and wide. Staminal filaments 2–3 mm long. Disc villous. Style villous in lower part. Fruit a 2-winged nut, glabrous; body 1–2 cm long; wings 1–3 cm wide at widest part, tending to be membranous, rounded. [The above description from the Flora of Australia Volume 18 treatment by Pedley (1990) may require further revision to exclude any elements of Terminalia oblongata subsp. volucris which is now treated as Terminalia volucris following the Australian Plant Census (accessed 2 September 2021)-Editor, 2 September 2021.]

Gently undulating plains, in minor depressions, and along watercourses. Often in pure stands or associated with Coolibah (Eucalyptus microtheca ) and Brigalow in heavy soils.

Can be grown by seedlings.