''Coprosma hirtella'' is a shrub in the family
Rubiaceae
The Rubiaceae are a family of flowering plants, commonly known as the coffee, madder, or bedstraw family. It consists of terrestrial trees, shrubs, lianas, or herbs that are recognizable by simple, opposite leaves with interpetiolar stipules ...
. It is endemic to south-eastern Australia. It grows to about 2 metres high and has leaves that are between 15 and 50 mm long and 10 to 25 mm wide.
Plants have male and female flower clusters that appear between August and April.
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These are followed by orange to reddish fruits that are 7 to 8 mm in diameter.]Jacques Labillardière
Jacques-Julien Houtou de Labillardière (28 October 1755 – 8 January 1834) was a French biologist noted for his descriptions of the flora of Australia. Labillardière was a member of a voyage in search of the Jean-François de Galaup, comte ...
in 1805, based on plant specimens collected in Tasmania.[ It is a common plant of moist montane forests in ]New South Wales
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, Victoria
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and Tasmania
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The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records "Fruit sweet, eatable, not agreeable. The fruits of other species may be eaten also."]
References
hirtella
''Hirtella'' is a genus of 110 species of woody trees in family Chrysobalanaceae. It was first described as a genus by Linnaeus in 1753. ''Hirtella'' naturally occurs in tropical forests throughout Latin America, the West Indies, southeast Afri ...
Flora of New South Wales
Flora of Victoria (Australia)
Flora of Tasmania
Taxa named by Jacques Labillardière
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