Commersonia breviseta

Decumbent or erect shrub to 3 m high. Leaves narrow-elliptic to narrowly ovate, 0.8–2.4 cm long, 0.1–0.6 cm wide, irregularly toothed, upper surface green, densely stellate-tomentose, undersurface pale green, densely stellate-tomentose, with long and short hairs; petioles 1–6 mm long. Inflorescence 4–16-flowered. Calyx segments 3.4–6.4 mm long, 1.3–2.7 mm wide, stellate-hairy on both surfaces; petals usually c. half the length of calyx segments, usually somewhat stellate-hairy; anther filaments glabrous; staminodes 5, stellate-hairy. Capsule 4.5–5.5 mm diam., moderate-dense stellate-hairy with or without scattered glandular trichomes to 0.1 mm long; setae 0.5–0.9 mm long, restricted to upper half of fruit; shaft of setae with scattered stellate hairs and/or glandular trichomes to 0.1 mm long; apex of setae with erect and horizontal hairs.