Prumnopitys taxifolia with abundance and diversity of divaricating shrubs or trees. It has a strongly divaricating habit with interlaced branched. It grows up to 2 m in a densely branching and divaricating form. This species does not have a divaricating juvenile phase. Rimu, Kamahi, divaricating shrubland, huge tree fuchsia, stands of olearia and podocarp forest.