Pomaderris subcapitata

Shrub, 2–4 m high; branchlets with fine stellate and long, rusty thread-like hairs. Leaves obovate to broad-ovate, 8–45 mm long, 7–25 mm wide, obtuse or emarginate, subvelutinous above with secondary veins impressed, lower surface greyish, densely stellate-pubescent, with long, fine rusty simple hairs over veins; stipules 3–7 mm long, deciduous. Inflorescence of dense, subglobular clusters, c. 2–5 cm wide; bracts persistent. Flowers cream or yellow, externally villous with whitish or coppery simple hairs over grey stellate hairs; pedicels 1–2 mm long; hypanthium 1–1.5 mm long; sepals 2–2.5 mm long, deciduous; petals c. spathulate, 1.5–2.5 mm long, or absent; disc absent; ovary inferior, summit simple-pubescent, style branched in middle third. Operculum membranous, c. one-third mericarp length. Flowers Sep.–Nov.