Common name: Coffee-berry
Coprosma hirtella Labill. APNI* 
Description: Erect shrub to c. 2 m high; branches rigid, glabrous or scabrous.
Leaves obovate to ± circular or broad-ovate to lanceolate, mostly 1.2–5 cm long, 10–25 mm wide, apex acute to obtuse and shortly acuminate, lamina glabrous or the upper surface and margins scabrous; petiole 2–5 mm long; stipules triangular, toothed.
Flowers in small terminal or axillary clusters. Male flowers in dense clusters; calyx minute; corolla campanulate c. 6 mm long, lobes scarcely longer than tube. Female flowers in groups of 3; corolla c. 4 mm long, tube short, ± exceeding the calyx, lobes longer than tube.
Drupe globose, 8–10 mm wide, orange-red when ripe.
Flowering: summer.
Distribution and occurrence: Grows in damp sites at higher altitudes, usually on hillsides in woodland or scrub on granite or basalt; south from Mt Kaputar N.P. and the Guyra area.
NSW subdivisions: CT, ST
Other Australian states: Vic. Tas.
Text by T. A. James
Taxon concept: Flora of NSW 3 (1992)
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