Alectryon oleifolius subsp. canescens

Shrubs or small trees to 6 m high, usually bushy with weeping or erect branches; branchlets, leaves and inflorescences densely white-pubescent. Leaves simple, sericeous when young, obovate to elliptic, (3–)5–8.5(–10) long, 0.4–1.6(–2.2) cm wide, obtuse, acute or subacute, mucronate, coriaceous; petiole 2–16 mm long. Inflorescence raceme- or panicle-like 1.5–9 cm long, 1.5–5 cm diam.; cymules (1–)2–9-flowered. Flowers usually bisexual; pedicels 1.5–10 mm long; calyx 1.5–2.5 mm long, subentire, broadly 5–10-toothed at margins, silky white-hairy (in Victoria); petals absent; stamen filaments 1.5–4 mm long; ovary densely white tomentose to puberulent. Capsules (1–)2–3-lobed, densely hairy, 10–25 mm diam.; pericarp subwoody, hairy or glabrous. Flowers and fruits Sep.–Feb.