The broad-leaved paperbark grows as a spreading tree up to 20 m high, with the trunk covered by a white, beige and grey thick papery bark.
Small impermanent dwellings, made of branches and bark (particularly paperbark) were built prior to the construction of more permanent buildings, and were referred to as humpies.
The rivers are fringed with paperbark woodlands.
In swampy areas there are thickets of coast paperbark.
Males have been collected from glades in rainforest and females from adjacent paperbark swampland.
Large numbers of fruit bats feed and roost in the extensive paperbark forests.
Thick bushland and paperbark trees surround the inlet and grow down to the waters edge.
The broad-leaved paperbark has been confirmed as a nymphal food plant.
