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Canopy tree up to c. 10 m. tall, with slender trunk; bark grey; branchlets, petioles and infl. pubescent. Juvenile plant shrubby, with slender, flexible, ± interlacing divaricating branchlets. Lvs sts fascicled, distant on short slender petioles; lamina 7–15 × 5–10 mm., ± obovate, cuneately narrowed to base, ± lobed or toothed towards apex. Adult with lvs on slender petioles up to ± 1 cm. long; lamina coriac., oblong to obovate-oblong, (2)–5–10 × 1–4 cm., sinuate or irregularly rather coarsely crenate-dentate or lobed or rarely entire. Panicles 4–8 cm. long; fls fragrant, small, unisexual; petals 5, white. ♂ with filaments > petals; anthers large, versatile; ovary rud. ♀with filaments < petals; anthers erect. Ovary oblong; stigma 3-lobed. Drupe black, c. 8–9 mm. long.
[From: Allan (1961) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 1.]
Flowering: Nov.–Feb.; Fruiting: Jan.–May.