Tree to c. 10 m high; branches and leaves with stellate hairs when young, soon glabrous. Leaves broadly ovate to broadly lanceolate or elliptic, (5–)7–14 cm long, (3–)4–6 cm wide, glossy green, paler beneath; margins serrate; apex acuminate; petiole 1.3–2 cm long. Flowers axillary, usually in 5–10-flowered cymes or solitary; pedicels 10–15 mm long, stellate pubescent; calyx campanulate, ± 5 mm long, stellate-pubescent, lobes triangular; petals white, ± 10 mm long. Mericarps 5(–6), 5–7 mm long including broad wings. Flowers Mar.–Apr.
GipP, HSF. Native to the North Island of New Zealand where it grows in coastal and lowland forest. Occasionally grown as an ornamental, apparently escaping cultivation into a near-by Eucalyptus regnans forest remnant near Monbulk, east of Melbourne.
