Coprosma acutifolia

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Coprosma acutifolia, is a shrub that is native to New Zealand, found only on Raoul Island. C. acutifolia can grow up to 12 metres tall in wet or dry forest, becoming a sub-canopy tree at lower altitudes and a canopy species along ridgelines.{{cite web|title=Coprosma acutifolia|url=http://www.nzpcn.org.nz/flora_details.asp?ID=1700|publisher=New Zealand Plant Conservation Network|access-date=23 September 2012}}

Tree up to c. 10 m. tall; branches ascending; branchlets slender, glab. Lvs on slender petioles 5–7 mm. long. Stipules membr., sheathing, sub-acute; denticle prominent. Lamina membr., glab., ovate to ovate-elliptic to lanceolate, acuminate, tapering to petiole; ± 60-(75) × 20- (35) mm.; margins ± waved. Reticulated veins fine, evident. ♂ 3–9 on slender axillary branched peduncles 10–15 mm. long; calyx cupular, teeth 4–5, acute; corolla subfunnelform, lobes 5, acute, ± = tube; stamens us. 5. ♀ 3 in a cluster on branched axillary peduncles; calyx cupular, teeth triangular, us. 5; corolla tubular, lobes linear-triangular, < tube. Drupe orange-red, oblong, 7–8 mm. long.

{{cite web|title=Coprosma acutifolia|url=https://biotanz.landcareresearch.co.nz/scientific-names/9f8f9e1a-db96-46bf-a515-50ecddbb0f1e|publisher=Landcare Research|access-date=6 June 2022}}