Coprosma nivalis

Prostrate subshrub, mat-forming; stems usually quite woody, to 60 cm long, much-branched, seldom rooting at nodes, virtually glabrous. Leaves sessile, crowded on upper branchlets, linear-oblong, mostly 6–13 mm long and 1–2 mm wide, subacute or obtuse, glossy and glabrous except for small hairs on margins, particularly when young, margins flat; stipules triangular, margins ciliate. Flowers sessile, unisexual, solitary, terminal on short branchlets. Male flowers lacking calyx; corolla funnel-shaped, c. 6 mm long, lobes shorter than tube. Female flowers with short tubular calyx; corolla narrow-obconical, 3–3.5 mm long, lobes shorter than tube; style 2-branched. Drupe ovoid, c. 3 mm wide, orange or reddish. Flowers Dec.–Feb.