Phebalium stenophyllum

Shrub to 1.5 m high; branchlets silvery- to ferruginous-lepidote. Leaves shortly petiolate; lamina narrow-oblong, 4–20 mm long, 0.8–3 mm wide, obtuse, subterete, upper surface glabrous or glabrescent, midrib not apparent, lower surface lepidote, margins recurved to revolute. Inflorescence a terminal 3–10-flowered umbel-like cluster; peduncle absent; pedicels 3–9 mm long. Calyx hemispherical, c. 1–1.5 mm long, silvery- to ferruginous-lepidote, smooth; petals 5 (rarely 6), imbricate, elliptic, 3–4 mm long, yellow, lepidote outside and ferruginous in upper half, silvery in lower half; stamens exserted, anthers yellow; disc not apparent; ovary silvery-lepidote. Follicles c. erect, ferruginous-lepidote, c. 3 mm long. Flowers spring.