Erect virgate shrub to c. 3 m high; branchlets many, terete or angular, striate, glabrous; flowering branchlets 0.5–1.5 mm diam. Leaves alternate, subulate, c. 1 mm long, appressed or slightly spreading, sessile, caducous. Inflorescences 2–5-flowered axillary clusters; peduncle 1–3 mm long; bracts leaf-like, usually 1–3; bracteoles 3 per flower, dentate or fimbriate. Flowers cylindric; tepals 5, ovate, 1–1.5 mm long, obtuse, white or yellowish, appressed when dry, persistent; stamens without appendages, anthers subsessile, lobes more or less equal. Drupe globose, 4–6 mm long, green or yellowish, usually only 1 develops per flower cluster.
LoM, MuM, Wim, VRiv, Gold.
2 varieties, both in Victoria.
Source:
Jeanes, J.A. (1999). Choretrum. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 4, Cornaceae to Asteraceae, pp. 31–32. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
