Maesa dependens F.Muell.

Scrambling shrub usually 1–2 m high, lenticels prominent; plants dioecious or gynodioecious. Leaves: petiole 2–20 mm long; lamina broadly ovate to obovate, 6.5–14.6 cm long, 3.6–9.7 cm wide, somewhat fleshy, glabrous or variously pubescent, base cordate to rounded, margin usually irregularly toothed, apex rounded to acute, glands as pellucid streaks, small pellucid and red dots also present. Inflorescence: single or branched racemes 9–28 cm long. Flowers 5-merous, 2–3 mm long; pedicel 1–3 (–7) mm long; calyx lobes longer than tube; corolla white, lobes as long as or longer than tube, reflexed after anthesis, glands lineate pellucid; staminal filaments c. 0.5 mm long, anthers c. 0.5 mm long; pistil c. 1.5 mm long; ovary semi-inferior, stigma lobed in bisexual and functional female; ovules c. 15 in bisexual, c. 18 in functional female (Paluma populations). Fruit globose, 3–6 mm long, 2.5–5 mm wide, yellowish, sparsely pubescent.

Grows on the margins of rainforest and associated disturbed areas; more common in montane areas than on the lowlands.

Plants can be grown from fresh seed or cuttings