Citation: F. Muell., Trans. Phil. Soc. Vic. 1:10 (1854).

Synonymy: Pleurandropsis phebalioides (F. Muell.) Baill.; Adansonia 10:306 (1872).

Common name: Downy starbush.

Description:
Small slender shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets densely grey-tomentose with silvery- and ferruginous-stellate hairs; leaves densely crowded, lacking obvious petioles; lamina broadly cuneate, less than 1 cm long, densely stellate-tomentose particularly on the lower surface; margin entire; apex retuse.

Inflorescence terminal with subsessile solitary flowers; calyx minute; petals 8-10 mm long, golden-yellow; stamens 10; ovary densely stellate-pubescent; stigma deeply cleft into 5 linear lobes.

Fruit and seed not seen.

Published illustration: Galbraith (1967) Wildflowers of Victoria edn 3:t.86.

Distribution:  S.Aust.: KI.   Vic. Conservation status: native Flowering time: Sept. — Dec.

SA Distribution Map based on current data relating to specimens held in the State Herbarium of South Australia

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