Coprosma hirtella

Erect to spreading shrub to c. 2 m high; branches often square in section, glabrous or scabrous. Leaves obovate, suborbicular, broad-ovate or lanceolate, mostly 15–50 mm long and 10–25 mm wide, acute to obtuse, shortly acuminate and mucronate, glabrous but upper surface often scabrous, margins recurved, often scabrous; petiole 2–5 mm long; stipules triangular, toothed. Flowers subsessile, unisexual (female flowers sometimes with staminodes), in small terminal or axillary clusters. Male flowers in dense, many-flowered clusters on short axillary branches; calyx small, cup-like; corolla campanulate, c. 6 mm long, lobes scarcely longer than tube. Female flowers in groups of 3 on short axillary branches; calyx with 5 acute teeth; corolla campanulate, c. 4 mm long, lobes longer than tube, recurved; style usually 2-branched. Drupe obovoid to subglobose, 7–8 mm long, orange to reddish. Flowers Aug.–Apr.