Tree mostly about 10 m tall but can grow larger. Branchlets covered with rustcoloured hairs. Leaves either adult and entire, oblong to oblanceolate to 20 cm long, 6 cm wide, or sometimes juvenile or intermediate with a few divisions or lobes, then to about 40 cm long, 20 cm wide, silky-hairy below. Leaf stalks mostly 1-2 cm long. Flower clusters axillary, to 20 cm or so long, of dense cylindrical spikes. Flowers white. Style white. Fruits flattened, beaked, style persistent.

Grows naturally in coastal or riverine rainforest.

Qld.

Very similar to Buckinghamia celsissima but the leaves are silky-hairy, not waxy-blue below and the follicles contain 2, not 4-6 seeds.

VIC: Caulfield (Park); Coburg (De Chene Reserve); Footscray (Park); S Yarra (Domain, path to Observatory House).

Source: Spencer, R.; Molyneux, B.; Mathews, D. (2002). Proteaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.