Stenopetalum velutinum

Annual herb or woody at base, to 65 cm high, densely covered with appressed, irregularly branched hairs. Basal leaves lanceolate, to 7 cm long, entire or with a few teeth; stem leaves lanceolate to linear, to 7 cm long. Sepals 3–5 mm long; petals 6–20 mm long, yellow-green to brown, claw linear, lamina elliptic with long slender apex. Fruit subglobose to oblong or obovoid, 5–8 mm long, 3–4 mm wide; pedicels appressed, erect or slightly spreading, 2–10 mm long. Flowers spring.