Coprosma lanceolaris F.Muell. APNI* Description: Shrub to 2 m tall. Young stems glabrous or minutely puberulous.
Leaves bright green, not fetid when bruised; lamina broadly lanceolate or lanceolate to elliptic, sometimes slightly oblanceolate, 3–9 cm long, 1.5–4 cm wide; base obtusely or narrowly attenuate onto petiole, flat; apex acute; primary veins 4 or 5 on each side of midrib, usually with pair of prominent domatia in axils of uppermost veins; stipules 5–6 mm long, with rigid, linear acumen 3.5–4 mm long.
Calyx obscure. Corolla 3 mm long, green. Male flowers 3, clustered; filaments 4 mm long; anthers 2 mm long. Female flowers 1–3; stigmatic arms 6–7 mm long.
Fruit ellipsoidal, 8 mm long, red.
Flowering: Flowers mid May–mid October
Distribution and occurrence: Endemic to Lord Howe Is., occurring on Mt Lidgbird. Common in montane forest from c. 500 m altitude.
NSW subdivisions: LHI
P.S. Green (Fl. Austral. 49: 1994)
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