Helicia glabriflora, is a shrub or small rainforest tree occurring in eastern Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

. Common names include Pale Helicia, Pale Oak and Leather Oak. Found in a variety of different rainforest types from Robertson, New South Wales

Robertson, New South Wales

Robertson is a small town in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales, Australia, in Wingecarribee Shire. The town is located on the edge of an elevated plateau about 35 km from the coast. At the 2006 census, Robertson had a population of 1,206 people.Robertson is known for its high annual...

 (34° S) to Townsville, Queensland

Townsville, Queensland

Townsville is a city on the north-eastern coast of Australia, in the state of Queensland. Adjacent to the central section of the Great Barrier Reef, it is in the dry tropics region of Queensland. Townsville is Australia's largest urban centre north of the Sunshine Coast, with a 2006 census...

 (19° S).

Up to 15 metres tall and a stem diameter of 30 cm. The grey or brown trunk is fairly smooth, with some bumps and horizontal lines. Leaves veiny and leathery in texture, 5 to 15 cm long, 1.5 to 4 cm wide. The leaf stem is between 1 and 3 mm long, swollen at the base. Often reduced to a pulvinus

Pulvinus

A pulvinus is a joint-like thickening at the base of a plant leaf or leaflet that facilitates growth-independent movement. It consists of a core of vascular tissue within a flexible, bulky cylinder of thin-walled parenchyma cells...

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Yellow or white flowers form from April to September on raceme

Raceme

A raceme is a type of inflorescence that is unbranched and indeterminate and bears pedicellate flowers — flowers having short floral stalks called pedicels — along the axis. In botany, axis means a shoot, in this case one bearing the flowers. In a raceme, the oldest flowers are borne...

s. Fruit is a purple blue drupe

Drupe

In botany, a drupe is a fruit in which an outer fleshy part surrounds a shell of hardened endocarp with a seed inside. These fruits develop from a single carpel, and mostly from flowers with superior ovaries...

, around 16 mm long. Maturing from April to November. With a single green seed. Flowers and fruit characteristic of the Protea

Proteaceae

Proteaceae is a family of flowering plants distributed in the Southern Hemisphere. The family comprises about 80 genera with about 1600 species. Together with the Platanaceae and Nelumbonaceae they make up the order Proteales. Well known genera include Protea, Banksia, Embothrium, Grevillea,...

family in appearance. Seeds are slow to germinate, usually complete after three months with a 90% success rate.