Androstoma empetrifolia is a New Zealand straggly native prostrate shrub forming patches up to ± 6 dm. Diam. It has slender wiry branches up to 40cm long and very slender hairy branchlets up to 15cm long bearing thick narrow leaves 3-5 mm long with recurved margins.

During November to February small axillary or terminal flowers appear. Red 4-5mm drupes mature from January to April. Androstoma empetrifolia is found throughout New Zealand in alpine and subalpine (600-1300 masl) areas usually in poor peaty soils. It is present on Mt Egmont/Taranaki.