Celastrus australis

Climbing shrub; young branches glabrous or puberulous, with broad-ovate to triangular scales near base. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 3–10 cm long, 1–5 cm wide, glabrous, apex acute or acuminate, often falcate, base cuneate, margins entire or toothed; petiole 3–15 mm long. Panicles terminal; pedicels 0.8–2.8 mm long. Flowers yellowish-green; sepals c. 0.5 mm long, rounded, much broader than long, irregularly toothed; petals oblong-ovate, 1.5–3 mm long; staminal filaments 0.5–1 mm long, staminodes of female flowers similar but smaller; style c. 1 mm long. Capsule subglobose to ellipsoidal, 3–6.5 mm long, 3–6 mm diam.; seeds angular, 3–4 mm long, enveloped in an orange aril. Flowers mostly late spring and summer.