Citation: A. Rich. in P. Lesson, Voy. l'Atstrolabe 1:264 (1832).

Synonymy: Not Applicable

Common name: Looking glass bush, taupata.

Description:
Shrubs or trees up to 2.5 m high, much branched, with stiff spreading branches; leaves with petioles 6-15 mm long; blade ovate-oblong to almost orbicular, rarely broadly elliptic, 25-65 x 20-50 mm, rounded to emarginate, abruptly constricted into the petiole, deep lustrous green above, paler below, stiffly fleshy; stipules with 5-7 short lobes on the sheath on either side of the node.

Flowers in dense cymose clusters; male flowers numerous, with minute calyx lobes, corolla shortly funnel-shaped; female flowers usually 3 per inflorescence, with very short obtuse calyx lobes; corolla tube funnel-shaped and splitting into 2-4 lobes, yellowish-green.

Fruit 6-8 mm long, glossy, orange-red.

Published illustration: Costermans (1981) Native trees and shrubs of south-eastern Australia, p. 278.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: EP, MU, YP, SL, KI, SE.   Vic.   Native to New Zealand. Conservation status: naturalised Flowering time: Nov. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

Biology: No text

Uses: Often found near old homesteads where it had been used as a hedge plant.

Author: Not yet available