Santalum obtusifolium

Erect shrub to c. 2.5 m high; branchlets angular-striate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, linear to lanceolate or elliptic, 3–6.5 cm long, 2–15 mm wide, obtuse or acute, margins recurved to revolute, surfaces discolorous (pale beneath); petiole 1–5 mm long. Inflorescences 1–6-flowered axillary umbel-like clusters; peduncle 4–10 mm long; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Receptacle 2–3 mm long; tepals 4, triangular-ovate, 1.5–2 mm long, obtuse, whitish, caducous; basal hair tuft dense; disc with prominent oblong lobes; style c. 3 mm long, stigma 4-lobed. Drupe broad-ellipsoid, 6–8 mm diam., subsessile, blue or purplish, style base persistent; flesh succulent, purplish; stone broad-ellipsoid, c. 7 mm long, endocarp variably rugose. Flowers Nov.–Jan.