Maytenus boaria Molina

Evergreen large shrub or small tree up to 10 m, often forming dense swards from root suckers. Branchlets drooping. Leaves 20–55 x 5 – 22 mm, alternate, narrowly lanceolate to elliptic , green, glabrous, glossy, bluntly toothed, base cuneate, apex acute to subacuminate; petioles 3–6 mm long. Flowers in few-flowered axillary clusters or solitary, green. Capsule 2-valved, valves 4–5 mm long. Seeds 4.5–5.0 x c. 2.5 mm, chestnut brown, surface longitudinally ridged, immersed in arils.

[Reproduced from Heenan et al. (1999, New Zealand J. Bot. 37: 629–642) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]