Scrub beefwood

Description

Usually flowers and fruits as a shrub 2-4 m tall. Leaf blades about 13-30 x 5-9 mm, petioles short, about 3 mm long. Leaf blades almost white on the underside. Venation almost longitudinal and parallel, the veins arising at the base and radiating. Midrib absent. Twigs clothed in brownish hairs. Flower buds completely enclosed by a series of overlapping bracts. Each corolla lobe with an erect tuft of hairs near the apex.