Bertya tasmanica subsp. vestita

Erect or spreading shrub 1–2.5 m high; branchlets greyish- or yellowish-tomentose, glabrescent with age. Leaves narrow-linear, mostly 1–3 cm long, 1–3 mm wide, non-resinous, apex acute or obtuse, base tapering into petiole, margins revolute, upper surface glabrous, hispid or scabrous, lower surface tomentose; petiole to c. 2 mm long. Flowers on peduncles 0–3 mm long; bracts mostly 7–10, 2–3.5 mm long, usually tomentose. Male perianth segments ovate, c. 4 mm long, more or less glabrous. Female perianth segments lanceolate, 5–6 mm long, scarcely enlarging in fruit, sparsely to densely hairy; ovary usually densely stellate-hairy, styles deeply 2–4-lobed. Capsule narrow-ovoid, 6–10 mm long, sparsely stellate-hairy. Flowers May–Jan.