"Folia linearia 5"/1" integerrima supra scabra hirsuta subtus canotomentosa. Thyrsi terminales. Flores apetali. Rami hirsuti. Pet. brevissimi. Folia margine reflexa; in superiore pagina pili prominentae impositi. Thyrsi in apicibus ramulorum. Pedicelli hirsuti. Bracteae scariosae deciduae. Cal. extus-hirsutus. German pubescens. Stigma quadripartitum. Hab. in Australia."

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Closely branched lfy shrub up to 1·5 m. tall, young stems and buds often hoary with simple white hairs. Sun lvs c. 10 × 3 mm., shade lvs 20 × 10 mm., in seedlings sts larger, cymbiform to oval, entire, deeply grooved at midrib, margins recurved all round except in softest lvs; petiole 1-2 mm.; upper surface dark green with soft simple hairs, lower surface white with close, mostly stellate, hairs, midrib prominent with long simple hairs; stipules narrow, dark, to 3 mm. long, scarious, hairy, often conspicuous. Infl. of axillary corymbs produced freely along twigs, rather frequently with a larger terminal group; outer bracts broad-triangular, brown, scarious, persistent; buds rounded; pedicels c. 2.5 mm. long. Fls very pale yellow, 4-5 mm. diam.; calyx-tube with close indumentum and many long simple hairs; sepals c. 2 mm. long; petals 0 or represented in some fls (especially in cultivated plants) by a petaloid outgrowth from a filament; stamens = sepals; style divided almost to base; capsule c. 4 mm. long, c. ⅓ immersed in calyx-tube, losing sepals early; operculum occupying most of inner face of coccus; seeds large, up to 2·2 × 1·6 mm., dark brown, shining.

2n = 36

2n = 36

2n = 36

2n = 36

n = 24 + f

2n = 48

n = 24

2n = 48

2n = 48

n = 24 (22–26)

Low, bushy shrub to 1.5 m high, often with many branches near ground level. Adult lvs subsessile, 2-8-(15) × 1-2-(5) mm, narrow-elliptic to narrow-oblong; upper surface with soft, erect, simple hairs; lower surface with dense tomentum of long-rayed stellate hairs and with some simple hairs on midrib and margins; margins entire, usually strongly revolute to midrib; stipules 2-4 mm long, persistent. Juvenile lvs larger and not or less revolute. Infl. a panicle of small, few-flowered terminal and axillary cymes. Calyx cream, spreading to reflexed. Petals 0, but occasionally calyx with petaloid outgrowth. Anthers ovoid. Ovary with simple and stellate hairs, c. 1/2 immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. ⅓ immersed at fruiting; apex with tuft of simple white hairs. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying from ⅞ to nearly the whole of their inner faces.