Tasmannia glaucifolia J.B.Williams

Shrub 1–3 (–4) m high, root suckering; branchlets maroon to reddish brown, glaucous, minutely tuberculate. Leaves: petiole 0.3–2 mm long; lamina oblanceolate to narrowly oblanceolate, 3–6 (–8) cm long, 0.4–1.5 cm wide, narrowly cuneate-attenuate at base, acute apex, subcoriaceous, glaucous and minutely papillose below. Petals absent (or 1 or 2), when present c. 3 mm long, 1 mm wide. Male flowers: pedicels 7–22 mm long; stamens 8–24; sterile carpel 1 (rarely absent or 2). Female flowers: pedicels 4–12 mm long; carpels 1 or 2 (–4), sessile; ovules 4–13. Apocarps broadly obovoid to globose, shortly beaked, 5–9 mm long, glossy or purplish black; transversely septate pulpa absent; stipes to 0.3 mm long. Seeds 1–4 (–6), strongly curved, 2–3 mm long, 0.7–2.7 mm wide.

Restricted to near watercourses in Nothofagus moorei /Elaeocarpus holopetalus cool temperate rainforest or in tall Leptospermum flavescens /Acacia melanoxylon communities; 1200–1530 m alt.