Pomaderris phylicifolia subsp. ericoides

Slender shrubs, 1–2.5 m high; branchlets greyish, pubescent or villous with simple and stellate hairs. Leaves linear; 3–8 mm long, 0.7–1.3 mm wide, apex slightly recurved, obtuse, margins entire, revolute, upper surface sparsely hispid with simple hairs, or rarely glabrous, lateral veins not apparent, lower surface obscured by revolute margins; stipules 1–6 mm long, persistent. Flowers in small axillary clusters, crowded toward branch-tips; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream to yellow; externally greyish, densely pubescent, with simple hairs overlaying stellate hairs; pedicels 0.5–2.5 mm long; hypanthium 0.5–1 mm long; sepals 1.2–2 mm long, deciduous; petals absent; disc absent; ovary half-inferior, summit simple-pubescent, style branched in middle third. Operculum membranous, subequal to mericarp. Flowers Nov.–Jan.