Rhaphidophora australasica, commonly known as needle berry, is a plant in the arum family Araceae that is only found in the Wet Tropics bioregion of northeastern Queensland, Australia.
It is a semi-epiphytic, robust, herbaceous, root climber reaching about 30 m (98 ft) tall.
[4][5] This species was first described in 1897 by the Australian botanist Frederick Manson Bailey, and published in the Queensland Agricultural Journal.
[2] The needle berry occurs in rainforest from around Cooktown south to about Ingham, at altitudes from sea level to about 1,000 m (3,300 ft).
[4][5] This species is listed by the Queensland Government's Department of Environment, Science and Innovation as least concern.