Plants of South Eastern New South Wales
Coprosma nivalis
Common name
Snow Coprosma
Family
Rubiaceae
Where found
Rocky places and rock crevices. ACT, the mountains to the west, Kosciuszko National Park, and nearby.
Notes
Prostrate shrub. Fruit fleshy. Stems matted or cushion-forming, to 0.6 m long, sometimes rooting at the base and nodes, mostly hairless. Leaves opposite each other, crowded, 0.6–1.3 cm long, 1–2 mm wide, shiny, hairless, tips blunt to somewhat pointed. Margins of the youngest leaves often with stiff, white hairs. Male and female flowers on different plants. Flowers greenish, tubular, with 4-6 lobes, the lobes shorter than the tube. Male flowers about 6 mm long, female flowers 3–3.5 mm long. Flowers single. Flowering: chiefly summer. Fruit pale violet-grey, orange, or reddish, about 3 mm wide, almost round.
Rare Vic.
All native plants on unleased land in the ACT are protected.
PlantNET description: http://plantnet.rbgsyd.nsw.gov.au/cgi-bin/NSWfl.pl?page=nswfl&lvl=sp&name=Coprosma~nivalis (accessed 7 January, 2021)
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