Pomaderris elachophylla

Shrub, 1–3.5 m high; branchlets densely covered with fine rusty stellate hairs. Leaves often subopposite, ovate to obovate, 2–10(–11) mm long, 1.5–5(–8) mm wide, obtuse to emarginate, margin plane or recurved, upper surface glabrous or with scattered simple or stellate hairs, lower surface densely stellate-pubescent, whitish, often with scattered larger, rusty hairs; stipules c. 0.5 mm long, deciduous. Flowers axillary, solitary or in small clusters; bracts deciduous. Flowers cream, externally stellate-pubescent; pedicels 1–3 mm long; hypanthium 0.1–0.2 mm long; sepals 1.4–1.6 mm long, much longer than hypanthium; petals absent; disc absent; ovary virtually superior, stellate-pubescent, style branched from near base. Operculum membranous, subequal to mericarp. Flowers Nov.–Dec.