Phebalium squamulosum

Shrub to c. 3 m high; branchlets smooth, ferruginous-lepidote. Leaves papery or coriaceous, narrowly elliptic to elliptic or obovate, apex truncate or retuse, upper surface glabrous to sparsely stellate-lepidote, smooth or rarely scaberulous, midrib slightly or deeply impressed, lower surface densely silvery- to ferruginous-lepidote or stellate-tomentose, margin entire or somewhat crenulate, flat, recurved or revolute. Inflorescence a terminal, (3–)5–10(or more)-flowered umbel-like cluster; peduncle absent or short; pedicels 3–8 mm long. Calyx shortly hemispherical or subturbinate, 0.5–1.2 mm long, lepidote, smooth to verrucose; petals imbricate, elliptic, 2–4.5 mm long, yellow to cream, silvery to ferruginous-lepidote outside; stamens exserted, anthers yellow; disc not apparent; ovary lepidote. Follicles erect, truncate or slightly rounded at apex, c. 3.5 mm long.