Common name: Goatwood
Coprosma prisca W.R.B.Oliv. APNI* Description: Dense shrub to 3 m tall. Branches stout, minutely puberulous when young.
Leaves glossy, bright green, not fetid when bruised; petiole 4–12 mm long, finely puberulous; lamina obovate to elliptic or sometimes almost lanceolate, 2–7 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, attenuate onto petiole, margin slightly recurved; apex obtuse to rounded; venation obscure above, evident below, 4 primary veins on each side of midrib with domatia in their axils; stipules triangular, 1–1.5 mm long.
Calyx obscure. Corolla 3–4 mm long, green. Male flowers in clusters of 3–8; filaments c. 4 mm long; anthers 2–2.5 mm long. Female flowers solitary or paired; stigmatic arms 6–8 mm long.
Fruit slightly obovoid, 6–7 mm long, green.
Flowering: Flowers late August–early October
Distribution and occurrence: Endemic to Lord Howe Is. north end of island. Relatively common at low altitudes, especially near the sea.
NSW subdivisions: LHI
P.S. Green (Fl. Austral. 49: 1994)
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