Pittosporum tenuifolium

Shrub or small tree to c. 8 m high. Leaves alternate, oblong to ovate, 3–6 cm long, 2–4 cm wide, glossy, mid to dark green above, lighter below, minutely pubescent when young, margins usually undulate. Flowers scented, bisexual, solitary in axils or in small axillary cymes; pedicles 2–3 mm long; sepals free, narrowly ovate to lanceolate, 5–7 mm long; petals oblong-elliptic to oblong-obovate, c. 12 mm long, deep maroon to almost black, spreading from c. mid-way. Capsule subglobose, c. 12 mm long, dark brown or black when mature, glabrous, inner face shallowly grooved, bright yellow; seeds numerous, 4–5 mm long, blackish.