Tree, usually 15–30 m high, often with crooked branches, crown spreading; bark grey to brown, rough, fibrous, persistent, extending to branchlets. Juvenile leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, to 9 cm long, 2–3.5 cm wide, glabrous or sparsely pubescent toward base, base auriculate, apex acute; adult leaves narrowly elliptic to narrowly ovate, falcate, 4.5–15 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, glabrous, discolorous. Peduncle 15–30 mm long, glabrous or sparsely covered with short white hairs, rarely with a few bristles. Flower buds ovoid or globose, 3–7 per peduncle; calyx-lobes 1–1.5 mm long; petals orbicular, 2–4 mm long, 2–4 mm wide, tuberculate; stamens numerous, filaments 5–7 mm long; style to 3 mm long. Fruit ovoid to globular 7–12 mm long, 8–12 mm wide, prominently ribbed, pubescent, tuberculate. Flowers Sep.–Feb.
VVP, VRiv, GipP, CVU, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU. Also Qld, NSW. In Victoria confined to far East Gippsland (east of c. Wingan Inlet) where found mainly in lowland, near-coastal forests on sandy soils.
