English: Bauerella; Hard aspen; Yellow-wood.
Genus: 10 species.
Habitat: warmer rainforest, tropical.
Region: Australia, north Queensland, south-eastern New South Wales, South Pacific, Norfolk Island, Lord Howe Island.
BotanyShrub or small tree; 18 m tall.
Stem: cylindrical; bark corky, fissured.
Leaves: simple; opposite, rarely in whorls of three; shiny on the upper surface, paler below; elliptic to egg-shaped with the narrower end towards the base; 3 to 17 cm long, 2 to 7 cm wide; petiole 1 1 to 5 cm long.
Inflorescence: panicles, in leaf axils, in small groups
Flowers: 8 to 60 mm long; unisexual; male flowers ± 4 mm long, with eight stamens alternating in length; female flowers are ± 5 mm, with 4 fused carpels, each with 2 ovules; flowering from February to August.
Fruit: drupe; oval to spherical; four carpels, partly or completely fused; 10 to 15 mm long.
Seeds: dark brown to black; ± 6 mm long.
Dispersion: by birds, green catbird, white headed pigeon.
TaxonomyIt was formerly named Vepris simplicifolia