Coprosma pseudocuneata

Coprosma pseudocuneata is a small to medium-sized evergreen shrub of the family Rubiaceae, endemic to New Zealand, where it is widespread in subalpine and montane scrub, tussock grassland margins and forest openings from the central North Island volcanic plateau southwards through the South Island. It typically grows 0.5–2.5 m tall, often forming a densely branched, rounded bush; the young branchlets are slender, brownish, and finely pubescent, becoming glabrous with age. The leaves are opposite, on short petioles 1–3 mm long, with small interpetiolar stipules tipped by a black denticle. The leaf blades are narrowly obovate to narrowly oblanceolate, 6–18 mm long and 2–5 mm wide, thick, leathery, dark glossy green above and somewhat paler beneath, with strongly recurved margins and a blunt apex. The species is dioecious; the inconspicuous tubular flowers are borne singly or in small fascicles in the leaf axils, the females developing into ellipsoid to obovoid drupes 5–8 mm long, ripening translucent pale orange to red and containing two pyrenes. The species is an important constituent of subalpine shrubland communities.