Lomatia fraseri

Shrub or small tree to 8 (–20) m high; buds rusty-hairy. Leaves lanceolate to elliptic, 6–12 cm long, 1–3.5 cm wide, dull green, faintly net-veined and glabrous above, pale yellow-green, rusty or silvery, silky-hairy below; apex acuminate; margins deeply or shallowly toothed; petiole 10–25 mm long. Inflorescence a terminal or axillary raceme or panicle, 8–12 cm long, mostly shorter than leaves; pedicels 5–10 mm long. Tepals 7–9 mm long, white or cream, densely pubescent. Follicle 20–30 mm long, leathery, blackish; seeds c. 10 per follicle, to c. 17 mm long including wing. Flowers Dec.–Feb.