Corokia macrocarpa is a small dense shrub (>2 metres) endemic to Kaiangaroa area in the Chatham Islands. Its habitat is dry places in forests and forest margins, up to 400 masl.

It develops yellow star-shaped flowers with an orange centre in spring and these are followed by yellow berries during autumn. The leaves (>80 mm long by >35 mm wide) are thick and leathery with deep green upper surface and have undersides that are covered with a white tomentum. Now sold in specialised native nurseries.