Coprosma perpusilla subsp. perpusilla

Prostrate subshrub, loosely mat-forming; stems fine, to 40 cm long, freely rooting at nodes, glabrous. Leaves crowded on upper branchlets, broad ovate-elliptic to suborbicular, mostly 5–7 mm long and 2–5 mm wide, obtuse, glossy and glabrous, margins flat and thickened; petiole to c. 2 mm long; stipules triangular, margins ciliate. Flowers unisexual, solitary, terminal on short branchlets, sessile. Male flowers with cup-like calyx; corolla funnel-shaped, 7–14 mm long, lobes much shorter than tube. Female flowers with deeply toothed calyx; corolla narrow-obconical, 3.5–6.5 mm long, lobes shorter than or equal to tube; style 3- or 4-branched. Drupe ovoid to globose, 4–6 mm wide, orange or reddish.  Flowers Dec.–Feb.