Melichrus gibberagee, commonly known as narrow-leaf melichrus,[2] is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae and is endemic to a restricted part of eastern Australia. It is a small shrub with compact, narrow, more or less erect, sharply-pointed leaves, white or yellowish flowers and more or less spherical, red drupes.
Melichrus gibberagee is a small, erect shrub that typically grows to a height of 30–120cm (12–47in). Its leaves are more or less glabrous, trowel-shaped or lance-shaped, sharply-pointed, 12.5–19.1mm (0.49–0.75in) long and 1.1–2.0mm (0.043–0.079in) wide on a petiole0.5–0.9mm (0.020–0.035in) wide, with 9 to 11 obvious, parallel veins. The flowers are arranged singly in leaf axils, with eight to ten overlapping green to cream-coloured bracts up to 3.9–6.7mm (0.15–0.26in) long. The five sepals are papery, egg-shaped to lance-shaped, 6.4–8mm (0.25–0.31in) long, cream-coloured and translucent. The petals form a narrowly urn-shaped tube 2–3mm (0.079–0.118in) long and wide with egg-shaped to lance-shaped lobes 4.0–5.2mm (0.16–0.20in) long and 1.7–1.9mm (0.067–0.075in) wide. Flowering occurs from March to August, and the fruit is a reddish-brown, elliptic drupe 4.8–5.1mm (0.19–0.20in) long and smooth.[2][3][4]
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