[2] Australian indigenous names include Garanggal used from Cairns to Yarrabah, Buku used in the Tully River area, Koie-yan used at Dunk Island and Djungeen used by the Girramay clan.

[2][6] The white, fragrant flowers are abundant but short lived, sometimes lasting only a single day.

[3] The species was first described as Faradaya splendida in 1865 by Victorian government botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in Fragmenta Phytographiae Australiae, based on plant material collected by John Dallachy near Rockingham Bay.

Those butterflies include Pseudodipsas eone, Hypochrysops miskini, Shining Oak-blue, Hypolycaena phorbas and Pale ciliate blue.

[9] For at least P. eone, this butterfly will seek out Oxera splendida leaves specifically for the extrafloral nectaries.

[10][11] The spectacled flying fox is a frugivore that eats O. splendida but is too small to consume and disperse the seed internally.

When the egg-like fruit falls to the ground in October, Bush Turkey nests will have eggs in them.

When the stone is thrown into a creek or small lagoon, all marine animals in the water are poisoned and death occurs within an hour.