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Slender erect shrub to 3 m high. Adult and juvenile lvs petiolate; lamina 20–70 × 10–30 mm, ± elliptic; upper surface glabrous except for scattered simple hairs around sunken midrib; lower surface with fine grey stellate tomentum and scattered simple or large stellate hairs on veins; margins entire, slightly revolute; stipules 4–5 mm long, deciduous. Infl. an open, much-branched, terminal corymb. Calyx reflexed, pale greenish; tube with scattered long, white, simple hairs until after anthesis. Petals cream; limb broad. Anthers oblong. Ovary with stellate hairs at apex, wholly immersed in calyx tube at anthesis, c. 1/2 immersed at fruiting. Fr. cocci opening by opercula occupying c. 1/2 of their inner faces.
[From: Webb et al. (1988) Flora of New Zealand. Volume 4.]
Flowering: Sep.–Oct.