Prostrate or decumbent shrubs with pubescent to glabrescent branches. Vestiture of tubercle-based simple hairs usually overlying stellate hairs. Leaves subsessile, linear-elliptic to linear-lanceolate, 4–14 mm long, 0.9–3 mm wide; apex obtuse, rarely acute, with terminal tuft of simple hairs; upper surface pubescent to glabrescent; margins narrow, revolute, scarcely raised above tomen-tose narrow central ridge. Flowers with peduncle 0–24 mm long, nodding after flowering, terminal on main shoots with one bract 2.2–3.7 mm long; sepals 3.3–9.4 mm long, accrescent, unequal, tomentose; petals obovate, 5.8–12.4.mm long, bright yellow; stamens 6–10 in one cluster; filaments usually free; carpels 2, tomentose.
LoM, Wim, GleP, VRiv, Gold, CVU, GGr, DunT, HNF.
Variable species with 3 subspecies, endemic in Victoria.
Source:
Toelken, H.R. (1996). Dilleniaceae. In: Walsh, N.G.; Entwisle, T.J., Flora of Victoria Vol. 3, Dicotyledons Winteraceae to Myrtaceae, pp. 300–313. Inkata Press, Melbourne.
