Shrub or small pyramidal tree to c. 10 m high, bright green or yellowish-green; branchlets numerous, usually pendulous, striate, pubescent or scurfy at first, becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, scale-like, triangular or lanceolate, c. 0.5 mm long, 2–5 mm long on new growth, spreading, apex obtuse or acute, persistent. Inflorescences short, dense, spikes or clusters to 8 mm long in uppermost leaf axils; usually only 1 flower per spike fertile; peduncle 1–4 mm long; rachis pubescent. Tepals 5, triangular-ovate, to c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse, yellow-green, persistent. Fruiting receptacle obovoid or ellipsoid, 4–6 mm long, orange to red, edible; drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, 4–5 mm long, green to brown. Flowers mainly Sep.–May.
LoM, MuM, Wim, GleP, Brid, VVP, VRiv, MuF, GipP, OtP, WaP, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, NIS, EGL, EGU, WPro, HSF, HNF, OtR, Strz, MonT, HFE, VAlp. Also SA, Qld, NSW, ACT, Tas. Widespread in lowland or foothill open-forests and woodlands in higher rainfall areas of Victoria.
