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A dense, rigidly branched shrub or small tree up to 5 m in height. Bark: ashy grey to brown, tending to flake in very narrow strips. Leaves: spirally arranged, crowded at the ends of rigid branchlets studded with old leaf-scars, or sometimes more widely spaced along longer branchlets, elliptic to obovate, very small, 0.5-1.3 x 0.2-0.5 cm, finely but densely hairy on both surfaces, lateral veins hardly visible; apex broadly tapering to rounded; base tapering; margin entire, sometimes slightly rolled under; petiole extremely short or absent. Flowers: greenish white to cream, 0.5-1 cm long, axillary, solitary, on very short stalks with narrow bracts at the base; floral parts usually in 5s (Mar.-Jul.). Fruit: almost round, 1-1.5 cm in diameter, fleshy, shortly hairy, yellowish, persistent calyx with 5 lobes, no more than 3-5 mm long, tending to curl slightly backwards (Aug.-May). Seeds: 2-8, oblong, dull brown.
Shrub, 1-5 m high; bark smooth to blistery, slightly peeling in fibre-like strips. Leaves 5-12 x 2-5 mm, subsessile or shortly petiolate, elliptic, thick, rigid, pubescent above, margins entire, flat or involute. Bracts 2, distant to subopposite, narrow and linear or leaf-like. Flowers solitary; functionally male or female with staminodes, greenish white to white, pedunculate; stamens 10, staminodes shorter and more hairy than stamens; ovary densely pubescent. Fruit subglobose, fleshy. Seed brown, oblong, circumvented by a thin line.
A shrub. It grows 5 m high. It keeps growing from year to year. It is densely branched. The leaves are clustered near the ends of the small branches. The leaves are alternate and with short stalks. The leaves are small and narrow and about 1-2 cm long. Male and female flowers are separate and in the axils of leaves. The fruit are orange berries 2 cm long.
Rigid, dioecious shrub or small tree, up to 5 m tall. Leaves subsessile, small, elliptic, with clustered short hairs and long, rigid, appressed hairs beneath, margin sometimes ± rolled under. Flowers solitary, axillary, whitish. Fruit a shortly hairy berry, yellowish.
Rigid, dioecious shrub to 5 m. Leaves subsessile, small, elliptic, shortly hairy. Flowers solitary, axillary, whitish. Fruits shortly hairy.
