Rhagodia parabolica

Rounded shrub to c. 2 m high. Leaves opposite or subopposite, distinctly petiolate, broadly elliptic, ovate, rhombic or obtusely hastate, 1.5–4 cm long, 7–25 mm wide, mealy grey-green, covered with glistening vesicular hairs. Inflorescence a pyramidal panicle, to c. 15 cm long and wide; perianth mealy on outer surface, tepals c. 1 mm long, enlarging (to c. 1.5 mm long) and usually reddening in fruit. Berry 2–3 mm diam., subtended by enlarged fruiting perianth; seed 1.5–1.8 mm diam., the surface faintly ribbed radially. Flowers mostly Sep.–Jan.