Alyxia ilicifolia F.Muell.

Erect, rigid shrub to 5 m high. Leaves (opposite or) 3-or 4-whorled; lamina elliptic, elliptic-oblong or obovate, to 150 mm long, to 50 mm wide, cuneate, entire or spinose with teeth to 3 mm long, acute, short-to long-acuminate, pungent pointed, coriaceous, discolorous; secondary venation prominent below. Cyme a much-branched dichasium to 20 mm long. Flowers 8–10 mm long, 8–12 mm diam.; pedicels 1–3 mm long. Sepals lanceolate, 1.5–5.5 mm long. Corolla cream to white; tube 6.5–10 mm long, 1.4–2 mm diam.; lobes lanceolate, 3–7 mm long, 1–2.5 mm wide. Stamens inserted 2.9–3.5 mm below top of tube. Fruit with 1, very rarely 2 articles; articles globose-obloid, 11–23 mm long, 6–12 mm diam., orange when ripe.

Plants grow in high altitude rainforest on granite.