''Coprosma cuneata'', is a shrub in the

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family, native to

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. ''Coprosma cuneata'' is a shrub with clusters of small dark green narrow leaves. The leaves are curved and 9-16mm by 2mm. They are widest at the tip, and have a tuft of small hairs between the base of the pairs of leaves. The fruit is red and persists on the shrub.

Conservation status

In both 2004 and 2009 it was deemed to be "Unthreatened" under the

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, and this classification was reaffirmed in 2018.

References

External links

''Coprosma cuneata'' occurrence data
from

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Flora of New Zealand cuneata Taxa named by Joseph Dalton Hooker Plants described in 1844 {{NewZealand-plant-stub