Beyeria lasiocarpa

Erect shrub or small tree 2–6 m high. Leaves oblong or ovate to elliptic, mostly 3–8 cm long, 7–20 mm wide, obtuse or emarginate, margins flat or slightly recurved, upper surface dark green, glabrous and often viscid, lower surface whitish-tomentose; petiole to c. 5 mm long. Male flowers 2 or 3 on peduncle to c. 20 mm long; bracts linear, to c. 3 mm long, green; female flowers solitary on peduncles to c. 20 mm long in fruit. Sepals of male and female flowers ovate, 4–5 mm long, white-tomentose; ovary densely bristly-hirsute, stigma 3–4 mm wide, sessile, flattish, slightly raised, persistent in fruit. Capsule subglobose, 8–10 mm long, densely bristly-hirsute; seeds 1–3, ovoid, c. 4 mm long, reddish-brown. Flowers mostly Dec.–Mar.