Leionema phylicifolium

Compact shrub to c. 1.6 m high; branchlets slightly angular when young, stellate puberulous in bands between decurrent leaf-bases. Leaves coriaceous, oblong-elliptic, 5–30 mm long, 1.5–3 mm wide, upper surface smooth, glabrous or with few hairs at base, lower surface smooth, white stellate-puberulous or rarely glabrous, margin entire, slightly recurved to revolute; petiole 0.5–1 mm long. Inflorescence a compact, shortly cylindric cluster of 1–3 flowers, in axils of uppermost leaves; peduncles and pedicels glabrous or glabrescent, both 1–3 mm long. Calyx c. 1 mm long, lobes deltoid c. 0.5 mm long, ciliolate; petals valvate, narrow-elliptic, 3.5–5 mm long, pale yellow, glabrous, gland dotted; stamens exserted; disc not apparent; ovary white stellate-puberulous or rarely glabrous. Follicles suberect, with a few hairs on outer surface, c. 3 mm long. Flowers spring and summer.