[2] The species should not be confused with Terminalia ferdinandiana, with which it shares some common names.

The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia’ records that Indigenous Australians of the Mitchell River area referred to this plant as "Ootcho" while those of the Cloncurry River area referred to it as "Go-onje" and "Gunthamarrah".

[4] Indigenous Australians pulverized the inner bark of this species and added it to small water bodies to act as a fish toxin, allowing fish to be easily collected from the surface of the water.

[4] Indigenous Australians boiled the inner bark of this species in water and the resulting liquid was used as an antiseptic wash for open cuts and sores.

[3] Indigenous Australians placed the heated leaves of this species over mosquito and sandfly bites to relieve irritation.