It is found in the tropical rainforests of northern and north-eastern Australia and New Guinea.

The genus Garcinia includes about 200 species found in the Old World tropics, mostly in Asia and Africa.

Garcinia warrenii is indigenous to New Guinea, the Torres Strait Islands, northeastern Queensland from Cape York Peninsula south to Babinda,[1] and a small, isolated population on Melville Island in the Northern Territory, Australia.

It has fragrant white flowers and purple sweet edible fruit.

Broken petioles (leaf stalks) and twigs produce a sticky yellow exudate.