Vitex pooara Corbishley

Small to medium-sized trees, to 5 m high; branches spreading; cork grey-brown, incised, peels in strips; young stems tawny. Leaves palmately compound with 3-5 pinnae; petiole (27-)45-46(-63) mm long, sparsely tawny-pubescent; petiolule usually absent. Pinnae tawny at base; median pinna (39-)58-60(-75) x (16-)27-28(-37) mm, narrowly obovate, margin entire, yellow green to khaki, both ad-and abaxial surfaces are pubescent, glandular trichomes present on both surfaces; coriaceous. Inflorescence a compound dichasium, total length (34-)54-56(-84) mm; length of bracts at first branch of inflorescence (5-)7-8(-15) mm. Flowers zygomorphic, total length 6 mm. Calyx: tube 2 mm; lobes 0.5 mm. Corolla: tube strongly curved, 5 mm long, white; lobes in front view 8.5 x 8.0 mm, held at right angles to tube. Androecium: longest pair of stamens 4 mm, shortest pair 3.5 mm, not exserted. Ovary glabrous, sparsely pubescent at apex; style 4.5 mm long. Fruit a fleshy drupe, sessile on a firm crateriform calyx, spheroid or ellipsoid, (9-)14-15(-18) x (9-)12-13(-18) mm, black when ripe. Flowering time: end of November to December.

Found at elevations from 318-1,600 metres.

The fruit is eaten raw.

Can be grown by seedlings.