A small to medium-sized tree, up to 25 metres tall and a stem width of 60 cm.

Leaves abruptly tapered at the base, with a leaf tip or rounded at the end.

Male flowers in axillary racemes with a perianth around 2 mm long, with 5 to 10 stamens.

The single seed is about 12 mm long, oval in shape with a groove on one side.

Previously used as bullock whip handles, in the Richmond River district, northern New South Wales.

[3] Indigenous Australians ate the fruit raw, and used leaves in cooking, as well as carving the wood.

[4] Early settlers on Lord Howe Island used the timber for sea piles because the sap repels marine worms.

Possibly also a food source for the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect[6] Media related to Drypetes deplanchei at Wikimedia Commons