Coprosma hirtella, or coffee-berry,[2] is a shrub in the family Rubiaceae.

[3] Plants have male and female flower clusters that appear between August and April.

[4] The species was formally described by French botanist Jacques Labillardière in 1805, based on plant specimens collected in Tasmania.

[1] It is a common plant of moist montane forests in New South Wales, Victoria and Tasmania.

[3] The 1889 book The Useful Native Plants of Australia records "Fruit sweet, eatable, not agreeable.