Coprosma quadrifida is a dioecious shrub of the family Rubiaceae native to southeastern Australia.

Like other related species, such as Coprosma nitida, C. quadrifida also displays pubescent branchlets that are spine shaped.

[3] Leaves are of a dull green colouration and lanceolate, or broad ovate, shaped.

The 1889 book 'The Useful Native Plants of Australia records that Coprosma Billardieri common names included "Native Currant" [sic] and that Indigenous Australians of Coranderrk Station, Victoria, called it "Morr" and that "This plant bears a small round drupe, about the size of a small pea.

Mr. Backhouse states that (over half a century ago) when British fruits were scarce, it was made into puddings by some of the settlers of Tasmania, but the size and number of the seeds were objectionable.