Exocarpos nanus

Prostrate or ascending subshrub to c. 1 m diam.; branchlets slender, angular-striate, glabrous. Leaves opposite, scale-like, triangular, 0.5–1 mm long, obtuse, erect or spreading, persistent. Flowers 1–4, in sessile axillary clusters; tepals 5, triangular-ovate, c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse, yellow-green, sometimes tinged with red, persistent. Fruiting receptacle obovoid to obconical, 2–4 mm long, dark red, edible but not palatable; drupe ovoid, 2–3 mm long, green to red-brown. Flowers Sep.–Feb.