Androcalva rossii

Spindly shrub or small tree to c. 8 m high. Leaves ovate or cordate, 5–31 cm long, 2–26 cm wide, irregularly toothed, sometimes somewhat 3-lobed, upper surface green, sparsely stellate-hairy, undersurface stellate-tomentose and grey or greenish-white; petioles 5–15 mm long. Inflorescence usually 10(or more)-flowered. Calyx segments 3–4.5 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, stellate-hairy on both surfaces, white internally, tinged pink externally; petals subequal to or longer than the calyx segments; staminodes 5, 3-lobed, glabrous, the inner lobe spathulate, about the length of the petals, the lateral lobes shorter than the inner. Capsule 15–25 mm diam., stellate-tomentose, bearing numerous bristles. Flowers Sep.–Oct.