Leptomeria acida

Erect, sometimes broom-like or occasionally spreading shrub 0.8–3 m high. Stems flexible to rigid; prominently angular and longitudinally ridged, minutely papillate, not pungent. Inflorescence a raceme, rachis 5–20 mm long. Flowers 12–30; tepals 0.6–0.7 mm long, apex incurved and hooded, slightly thickened adaxially, usually with a small tuft of minute hairs on the adaxial surface at or just above the point of filament insertion (sometimes obscured by stamens), reddish, less often yellowish-brown or greenish, drying dark; disc shallowly lobed, 0.6–0.7 mm diam. Drupe sub-globose to globose or ellipsoid, 6–8 mm long, epicarp fleshy, c. translucent, green to yellowish-green or greenish-brown, often suffused with purple, edible but tart. Flowers Dec.–Mar.