Cordyline rubra Otto & A.Dietr.

Shrub to 4 m high, sometimes branched. Leaves 15–50 cm long, 3–4.5 cm wide; lamina gradually narrowed into a flat or slightly concave petiole 5–20 cm long. Panicles to 40 cm long; scape 20–30 cm long; pedicels 1–2 mm long. Perianth glabrous; petals 7–10 mm long, c. 1 mm longer than sepals. Fruit c. 1 cm diam., red.

Occurs in coastal lowlands and mountains in rainforest and wet open-forest, sometimes in sandy soils.

The fruit are reported as edible.