Thomasia petalocalyx

Shrub 0.3–1 m high. Leaves ovate to lanceolate or more or less oblong, 1–4 cm long, 0.5–1.3 cm wide, both surfaces with stellate hairs; petioles to c. 5 mm long; stipules leaf-like, sessile, 8–12 mm long, 4–8 mm wide. Inflorescence 1–5-flowered; bracteoles 3, 5–6 mm long, 2.5–3 mm wide, greenish, conspicuously stellate-hairy on the outer surface but rather sparsely so on the inner surface; calyx segments 7–8 mm long, 3.5–4.5 mm wide, papery, purplish, both surfaces variably stellate-hairy; petals less than 1 mm long, red and somewhat glandular; anthers red-brown, c. 2 mm long; style glabrous. Capsule enclosed in the calyx. Flowers Sep.–Mar.