Pittosporum pullifolium Burkill

Small tree or shrub, c. 1-5 m, at lower altitudes hemi-epiphytic, said occasionally to be a medium-sized tree, c. 15-20(-36) m, young shoots yellowish brown pubescent. Leaves more or less in pseudo-whorls, stiffly coriaceous, elliptic, narrowly elliptic or narrowly obovate, c. 2.5-25 by 1.5-9 cm, pubescent when young, pubescence occasionally persisting beneath; base attenuate, margin slightly recurved or distinctly revolute, top rounded or abruptly c. ½-1 cm acuminate; midrib, 5-10 pairs of nerves, and the lax reticulations impressed above, midrib and nerves prominent beneath; petiole ½-3½ cm. Inflorescences terminal or pseudo-terminal, condensed racemes, exceptionally solitary axillary; peduncle firm, c. (0-)1-1.5 cm, pubescent; rhachis c. 0.5 cm, pubescent. Bracts triangular or narrowly oblong, c. 3-10 by 2-3 mm, acute. Pedicels 0-10 mm. Flowers large. Sepals free, narrowly elliptic to broadly elliptic, c. 4-6 by 2-3.5 mm, yellow or purple, ciliate. Petals ligulate, c. 9-15 by 2-5 mm, top rounded. Stamens in ♂ flowers c. 9-12 mm, in female flowers 4-4.5 mm; filaments in ♂ flowers, c. 6-9 mm, in female flowers c. 3 mm; anthers in ♂ flowers oblong, c. 2-3 mm, in female flowers small, c. 1-1 mm. Ovary sessile, in ♂ flowers reduced, cuneiform, c. 1 mm, pubescent, in female flowers ellipsoid, c. 4-6 by 2.5 mm, style in ♂ flowers c. 3 mm, in female flowers slightly shorter. Fruits up to 20, on woody pedicels of c. 1-2(-3) cm, ellipsoid to broadly ellipsoid, sometimes compressed, c. 1.5-3.5 by 1-2 cm, 2-or occasionally 3-valved, mucronate; valves rugose, slightly recurved when mature, c. 1-2 mm thick at the straight margins, in the median line up to 4 mm diam., funicles inserted up to the top of the valves. Seeds numerous, irregular, flattened, c. 5 mm. A specimen with young fruit had the infructescences axillary on the twigs instead of terminal. Cf. BAKKER Blumea 11 1962 426 .

The mountain form is a common small tree or shrub in edges of subalpine forests (3200-3800 m), the specimens from lower altitude are hemi-epiphytic shrubs or small trees in rainforests or mossy forests (1200-2100 m, once at 600 and 100 m).

The seeds are eaten. They contain a resinous coating.

It can be grown from seeds or cuttings. They tend to grow as epiphytes attached to other plans.