Prockia crucis P.Browne ex L.

Shrub or small tree 1.2-10 m high, the trunk to, 10 cm in diam, the branchlets grayish-puberulous or glabrous. Leaves with the petioles to 20 mm long, glabrous or softly hirtellous, the stipules conspicuous, sessile or nearly so, extremely inequi-lateral, oblique at the base, acuminate at the apex, glandular-crenate along the margins, up to 17 mm long, usually ca 5-8 mm long, glabrous or softly hirtellous; blade broadly to narrowly ovate, usually rounded or sometimes subcordate at the base, acuminate at the apex, glandular-crenate or-serrate along the margins, 4-11 cm long and 2-7 cm wide, thin-chartaceous, slightly discolor, glabrous or shortly puberulous above, glabrous or softly hirsute below, 5-7-nerved from the base, the main nerves slightly prominent. Inflorescences racemose. Flowers with the pedicels terete, slender, 7-17 mm long, glabrous or softly hirtellous, the bracteoles narrowly triangular, 3-5 mm long; sepals ovate, attenuate and obtuse to acute at the apex, 5.5-6.5 mm long and 3.5-4 mm wide, green, short-hirsute outside, glabrous below to tomentellous towards the apex inside; petals none; filaments unequal, 4-6 mm long, yellow, glabrous, the anthers ca 0.3 mm long; ovary subglobose, ca 2-2.5 mm long and 2.5-3 mm in diam, shortly appressed-hirsute, the style to 4 mm long, short-hirsute below to glabrous above, the stigma slightly thickened. Bacca ? globose, 6-7 mm in diam, the pericarp thin, green when young, becoming light red to very deep red, almost black when completely ripe, shortly pilose; seeds ? ellip-soid, ca 1.5 mm long and 1 mm in diam, the testa black, longitudinally striate.

An understorey plant in Rainforests, Gallery, Araucaria and seasonal forests; usually found near rivers and on floodplains. Moist or dry forest or thickets, sometimes in second growth, at elevations up to 2,400 metres.

Can be grown by seedlings.