Shrubs or small trees, to c. 7 m high. Young growth and flowers shortly hairy. Leaves elliptic, ovate to lanceolate, 5–10.5 cm long, 2.5–5.5 cm wide, dark green and shiny above, paler beneath; veins whitish or yellowish; margins coarsely toothed, each ending in a short, hard point; petioles 2–3 cm long. Flowers greenish with inflexed segments. Fruits c. 1 cm in diam., more or less globular, maturing yellow or orange. Flowers Aug.–Dec.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, OtP, WaP, CVU, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, HFE, VAlp. Also Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. A common species in and at the edge of rainforest or in the understorey of wet sclerophyll forest, often in moist, shaded gullies.
Source:
Foreman, D.B. (1996). Monimiaceae (including Atherospermataceae). In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 25–26. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
