Class
Family
Genus
Young stems with moderately to densely hairy internodes; older stems dark brown to black. Node buttresses sometimes prominent on leafless stems. Leaves often broad-elliptic to broad-ovate, tips sharply acute to blunt. Leaf hair cover long, often ascending, dull white to yellowish, straight or sometimes curled.
[Reproduced from Burrows (2011, New Zealand J. Bot. 49: 41–106) with permission from The Royal Society of New Zealand.]