Lasiopetalum baueri

Shrub to 1.5 m high. Leaves more or less linear, narrowly elliptic or narrowly oblong, 2–8 cm long, 0.2–1.2 cm wide, becoming glabrous above, densely, and often rusty, stellate-hairy beneath; base inconspicuously subcordate; margins flat or recurved; petioles 2–5 mm long. Inflorescence (1–)2–6-flowered, crowded to open; bracteoles 3, 1.4–3 mm long. Calyx segments 3.4–5.7 mm long, mainly white or pink but greenish towards the base, the outer surface densely stellate-hairy, the inner surface moderately to densely hairy; petals less than 1 mm long, red and somewhat glandular; anthers red-brown, c. 1.5 mm long; style glabrous. Capsule 4–8 mm diam., densely hairy. Flowers Sep.–Nov.