Santalum lanceolatum

Erect shrub or small tree to c. 7 m high, often root-suckering; branchlets spreading and pendulous, angular-striate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, broad-lanceolate to narrow-elliptic, 2–9 cm long, 5–25 mm wide, acute, often mucronate, margins flat, surfaces concolorous or slightly discolorous, often somewhat glaucous; petiole 2–10 mm long. Inflorescences axillary or terminal panicles or racemes; peduncle 5–30 mm long; pedicels c. 1 mm long. Receptacle 2–3 mm long; tepals 4, triangular, 3–5 mm long, obtuse, greenish, caducous; basal hair tuft prominent; disc with oblong or spathulate lobes; style 3–4 mm long, stigma 4-lobed. Drupe ovoid, 7–10 mm diam., blue or purplish, with prominent circular apical scar, edible; endocarp smooth. Flowers mainly Aug.–Jan.