Asterolasia trymalioides subsp. villosa

Erect to spreading shrub to c. 80 (rarely to 150) cm high; young leaves and branchlets floccose, with stalked stellate hairs, the stalks of which are mostly longer than 1 mm long and the stellae 0.8–1.5 mm diam. Leaves mostly broadly ovate to broadly obovate or oribicular, upper sruface finally tuberculate or sparsely hispid from retained stubs of the stellate hairs. Petals mostly 8–10 mm long; stigma c. 1 mm diam. when fully expanded. Flowers Oct.–Dec.