Beyeria lanceolata

Erect shrub 3–4 m high. Leaves lanceolate, 55–120 mm long, 6–18 mm wide, acute at apex, margins flat or slightly recurved, glabrous, upper surface dark green, often viscid, lower surface pale green to whitish; petiole 3–6 mm long. Male flowers solitary or up to 4 in a cluster on a viscid peduncle to c. 4 mm long; pedicels 7–9 mm long; bracts linear to narrow-ovate, to c. 3 mm long, green; sepals ovate, 3–4 mm long, viscid. Female flowers solitary on peduncle to c. 4 mm long; pedicel 6–10 mm long (to c. 15 mm in fruit); sepals ovate 2.5–3.5 mm long, whitish; ovary glabrous, stigma c. 2 mm wide, sessile, cap-shaped, persistent in fruit. Capsule subglobose, 10–12 mm long, glabrous, viscid; seeds usually 3, obloid, c. 6 mm long, dark brown or mottled brown and grey. Flowers mostly Dec.–Feb.