About Asterolasia asteriscophora (F.Muell.) Druce
Asterolasia asteriscophora is a slender, erect shrub that usually grows between 1 and 2 metres (3 feet 3 inches to 6 feet 7 inches) tall. Its young branches are covered in woolly, grey to brown star-shaped hairs. The leaves are shaped like a spatula, egg, wedge, or ellipse, measuring 3 to 30 millimetres (0.12 to 1.18 inches) long and 2 to 10 millimetres (0.079 to 0.394 inches) wide, and grow on a short petiole. The upper surface of the leaves is more or less hairless, while the lower surface is covered in woolly, brownish or whitish hairs. Flowers are arranged singly or in small groups, growing in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets, on pedicels 2 to 20 millimetres (0.079 to 0.787 inches) long. The petals are yellow, and rarely white, 5 to 7 millimetres (0.20 to 0.28 inches) long, and covered with brown, woolly, star-shaped hairs on their back. Flowering of this species takes place in spring. This species is widely distributed along the Great Dividing Range, from the Tumut district in New South Wales to the Macedon and Emerald districts in Victoria. It grows in forest and along the edges of watercourses. The subspecies albiflora is only known from the Emerald-Avonsleigh area and is threatened by urban development.
