[3] In New South Wales this species grows on a variety of different soils, such as andesites, basalts or metamorphics from altitudes of 40 to 500 metres above sea level.

The timber is suited to turnery, the wood being fairly hard and close grained.

[2] Specimens described by Airy Shaw were variable and collections identified as this species are now included under different taxa.

Such as A. grandifolia (in New South Wales), A. flavescens, A. traceyi, A. venusta and A. vernicosa in Queensland.

[2] The type specimen for the synonym Actephila mooreana was collected by Charles Moore at the Richmond River and Mount Lindesay in 1861.

This plant first appeared in botanic literature as Lithoxylon lindleyi, in the Nomenclator Botanicus, second edition of 1841.