Maytenus peduncularis (Sond.) Loes.

Tree, occasionally up to 20 m high. Branches terete, softly hairy. Bark grey-brown to almost black. Leaves alternate, dark green above, paler below, hairy when young; lamina elliptic or ovate, 20-80(-120) x 8-45 mm, apex acute to obtusely subacuminate, base broadly cuneate to rounded, margins serrate; petioles 4-10 mm long. Inflorescences axillary, cymose, few-flowered, hairy; peduncle 10-35 mm long. Flowers very small, greenish white or yellowish. Sepals suborbicular, ± 0.75 mm long, hairy, margins laciniate. Petals suborbicular, fleshy, ± 2 mm long, margins uneven. Ovary 2-locular; style short. Fruit a 2-valved, obovoid capsule, ± 10 mm long, slightly asymmetric, smooth, yellow. Seeds completely enveloped by white aril.