Genus: ± 30 species.
Region: southern Australia.
Habitat: open forest.
BotanyShrub, to 120 cm’ numerous stems from woody rootstock.
Leaves: oblong to narrow-oblong; 8–30 mm long, 2–6 mm wide, margins recurved; upper surface dark green and glabrous; lower surface mostly densely hairy and greyish, rarely glabrescent and green; stipules lanceolate, 3–6 mm long, brown.
Flower: floral leaves 2–4, mostly ovate to elliptic, upper surface whitish tomentose; bracts around individual flowers usually ± 5 mm long, brown; flowers 4–5 mm long, hairs long and hairs at base mixed with dense short hairs above; flowering in winter.