Denhamia cunninghamii (Hook.) M.P.Simmons

Shrub to 4.5 m high; branchlets glabrous or puberulous. Leaves: lamina linear, narrowly elliptic, oblong-obovate or oblanceolate, attenuate or cuneate base, entire margin, acute or obtuse, often mucronate apex, mostly 2–7 cm long and 0.2–0.8 cm wide, coriaceous; secondary veins at very acute angle, variable in number; petiole to 2 mm long. Inflorescence axillary, racemose, 1-to many-flowered; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Sepals 5, obtuse, c. 0.7 mm long. Petals 5, oblong-ovate, 1.5–1.8 mm long. Staminal filaments 0.5–1 mm long. Disc c. 1 mm diam. Ovary 2-locular; style c. 0.5 mm long; stigma 2-lobed. Capsule globular or obovoid, 4–5 mm diam., 2-valved. Seed 1, rarely 2, more than half enclosed in aril.

Grows often in open forest and woodland, sometimes vine thickets and monsoon forest.