 It commonly grows with tree species such as the pink bloodwood ("Corymbia intermedia"), forest red gum ("Eucalyptus tereticornis"), swamp turpentine ("Lophostemon suaveolens"), forest oak ("Allocasuarina torulosa"), and black sheoak ("A. littoralis"), and understorey species such as coin spot wattle ("Acacia cincinnata") and yellow wattle ("A. flavescens").Much of its lowland habitat in the Wet Tropics has been degraded or fragmented.Although the range overlaps with "B. dentata", the two species are not known to occur together.