Celastrus australis Harv. & F.Muell.

Scandent shrub; young branchlets glabrous or puberulous, with erose broad scales near base. Leaves: lamina lanceolate to elliptic, often falcate, cuneate base, serrate margin, acute or acuminate apex, mostly 3–9 cm long and 1–4 cm wide, membranous to chartaceous, glabrous; secondary veins 6–11 pairs; petiole 3–15 mm long. Panicles terminal, glabrous or puberulous; pedicels articulate, 0.8–2.3 mm long. Sepals rounded-deltoid, c. 0.4 mm long. Petals oblong-ovate, 1.8–2.8 mm long; margins recurved. Staminal filaments 0.6-1 mm long; staminodes of female flowers similar but smaller. Style c. 1 mm long. Capsule ellipsoidal to subglobose, 3–6.5 mm long, 3.3–6 mm diam. Seeds 1–6, ± angular, 3–4.2 mm long, enveloped in an orange aril.

Usually associated with the cooler and moister forms of notophyll vine forest.