Rhodamnia rubescens, the scrub stringybark, brush turpentine, or brown malletwood, is an evergreen rainforest tree of the myrtle family Myrtaceae, that is native to Eastern Australia.

The bark is reddish brown, brittle, scaly and "stringy", similar to its relative, Syncarpia glomulifera (the turpentine tree).

The tree's small branches are scaly with the same reddish bark as the trunk; the new shoots are covered in minute hairs.

The fruit is a small berry, initially red then turning to shiny black as it matures from October to December.

The fruit is eaten by various birds, including the brown cuckoo dove, figbird, green catbird and rainbow lorikeet.