Plants as for T. xerophila, but a shrub 0.5–1.2 m high. Leaves compact, 0.8–2(–2.5) cm long, 2–6 mm wide, veins obscure; apex obtuse; petiole 1.5–3.5 mm long. Flowers 1–15 per inflorescence, pedicels 3–10 mm long. Male flowers with 8–26 stamens, sterile carpels 1(–2). Female flowers with 1–6 carpels, ovules 3–6 per carpel. Fruit 1–3(–4) per pedicel, globose to short ovoid, 6–12 mm long, 6–10 mm wide, burgundy at maturity; pedicels 4–11 mm long; seeds 2–5 per berry; aborted ovules white. Flowers Dec.–Feb.
Restricted to the Baw Baw Plateau at altitudes of 1000–1500 m in Snow-gum woodland, but there locally abundant.
Source:
Raleigh, R.E.; Entwisle, T.J. (1996). Winteraceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 21–23. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
