Leptomeria drupacea

Erect, sometimes broom-like or occasionally rather spreading shrub 0.7–2.5 m high. Stems flexible to rigid, subterete to prominently angular, longitudinally ridged, not pungent. Inflorescence a raceme, rachis 5–15 mm long. Flowers 6–15, tepals 0.6–0.9 mm long, apex incurved, prominently hooded and thickened adaxially, with a small tuft of minute hairs on the adaxial surface above the point of filament insertion, white (frequently flushed reddish-pink upon ageing); disc markedly lobed, 0.6–0.8 mm diam. Drupe subglobose to ellipsoid, c. 6 mm long, epicarp fleshy, green, ripening reddish. Flowers Nov.–Dec.