Exocarpos cupressiformis

Shrub or small pyramidal tree to c. 10 m high, bright green or yellowish-green; branchlets numerous, usually pendulous, striate, pubescent or scurfy at first, becoming glabrous. Leaves alternate, scale-like, triangular or lanceolate, c. 0.5 mm long, 2–5 mm long on new growth, spreading, apex obtuse or acute, persistent. Inflorescences short, dense, spikes or clusters to 8 mm long in uppermost leaf axils; usually only 1 flower per spike fertile; peduncle 1–4 mm long; rachis pubescent. Tepals 5, triangular-ovate, to c. 0.5 mm long, obtuse, yellow-green, persistent. Fruiting receptacle obovoid or ellipsoid, 4–6 mm long, orange to red, edible; drupe ovoid or ellipsoid, 4–5 mm long, green to brown. Flowers mainly Sep.–May.