It blooms between March and September producing yellow coloured flowers.

[2] The stem is usually a cream or pale colour with brittle stripes usually visible in the outer blaze.

[4] It is found in along sandstone ridges an outcrops in the east Kimberley region of Western Australia between the Prince Regent National Park, Halls Creek and Kununurra extending into the Northern Territory[2] from the border to central Arnhem Land and as far south as Timber Creek and as afar north as the Tiwi Islands.

[1] The species was first formally described by the botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1857 as part of the work Nova genera et species aliquot rariores in Plagis Australiae Intratropicis nuperrime detecta.

[6] The plant is commonly cultivated from seedlings in and around Darwin area for as a shade tree in gardens and produces large bunches of yellow flowers which attract birds.