Commersonia rugosa

Shrub to 2 m high. Leaves ovate to narrowly ovate, 0.5–5 cm long, 0.2–1 cm wide, irregularly toothed, becoming serrulate, upper surface green, moderately to densely stellate-hairy, undersurface fawn-green to greenish-white, densely stellate-tomentose, with long and short hairs; petiole 1–5 mm long. Inflorescence 2–15-flowered. Calyx segments 3.5–6 mm long, 2–2.5 mm wide, stellate-hairy on both surfaces; petals c. half as long as calyx segments, often somewhat stellate-hairy; anther filaments usually with stellate hairs, rarely glabrous; staminodes 5, stellate hairy. Capsule 6.5–14.5 mm diam., densely stellate hairy; setae 3.5–4.6mm long, present through fruit surface; shaft of setae with dense simple or stellate eglandular hairs in lower two-thirds and glandular trichomes to 0.5 mm long in upper third; apex of setae with erect and horizontal hairs to 0.5 mm long. Flowers Aug.–Nov.