Dicrastylis gilesii

Description

Tomentose shrub to 2 m high with erect branching, chiefly near the base stems; densely covered in greyish hairs; young branchlets with purplish or greenish-grey hairs. Leaves decussate, petiolate, elliptic-ovate, lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate; entire to 8.5 cm long and 3 cm wide and up to 1.5 mm thick; densely tomentose,with young leaves with purplish or greenish-grey hairs; stalk to 1 cm long, densely tomentose. Flower-spike of cream- white flowers in pyramidal clusters in axils of leaves, with purplish-grey, purplish-cream or greenish-grey hairs.