Stenanthemum leucophractum

Soft, spreading subshrub to c. 25 cm high; branchlets pubescent with stellate and appressed simple hairs, new growth usually golden to rusty-brown. Leaves shortly petiolate, obovate to spoon-shaped, 3–10 mm long, 2.5–8 mm wide, apex obtuse, often shortly recurved, upper surface of stem leaves green, but with short simple hairs, floral leaves white-felted above with stellate and simple hairs, lower surfaces with dense whitish stellate hairs overlain by silky brown hairs; stipules brown, ciliate to silky, to c. 3 mm long, united for c. one-third their length. Flowers in terminal heads to 8 mm diam. (not including floral leaves); bracts broad-ovate, c. 3 mm long; perianth narrow-tubular, 4–6 mm long, white or yellowish, externally appressed white-villous; sepals c. 1 mm long, spreading; petals c. 0.5 mm long; style shortly exceeding hypanthium tube, entire. Fruit c. 2.5 mm long, splitting through the base of the perianth. Flowers mainly summer.