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, 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.
