 The tree was later described as "Achras australis" by Robert Brown in his 1810 work "Prodromus Florae Novae Hollandiae", before being moved to its current binomial name by Baehni in 1942.The alternate name "Planchonella australis" was coined by Jean Baptiste Louis Pierre in 1890.It belongs to the large genus "Pouteria" which occurs across the tropics from South America to Indonesia and into eastern Australia.