Common name: Tree Lomatia
Lomatia arborescens L.R.Fraser & Vickery APNI* 
Description: Shrub or small tree to 10 m high; bark grey-brown, buds rusty-hairy.
Leaves ovate to lanceolate or oblong-elliptic, 3–15 cm long, 1.5–6 cm wide, margins entire or crenate to coarsely toothed, teeth not pungent, base acute or obtuse, glabrous, reticulate venation often apparent but not conspicuously raised on upper surface; petiole 10–40 cm long, often about a third the length as the lamina.
Conflorescences axillary, raceme-like, 8–15 cm long, not or scarcely exceeding the leaves. Perianth 5–7 mm long, cream, ± glabrous.
Follicle 25–35 mm long.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in cooler rainforest, or moist situations in wet sclerophyll forest at higher altitudes, north from Barrington Tops, and west to Mt Kaputar N.P.
NSW subdivisions: NC, NT, NWS, CWS
Other Australian states: Qld
Leaves variable, large and evenly toothed in plants in the shelter of rainforest and smaller, often entire in more exposed situations.
Text by G.J. Harden
Taxon concept: A.J.G. Wilson, H.J. Hewson & J. Mowatt (1995)
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