Asterolasia phebalioides, commonly known as downy starbush,[1] is a species of shrub in the family Rutaceae and is endemic to south-eastern continental Australia. It has densely crowded heart-shaped to wedge-shaped leaves densely covered with star-shaped hairs, and single yellow flowers borne on the ends of branchlets with star-shaped hairs on the back of the petals.
Asterolasia phebalioides is a shrub that typically grows to a height of Шаблон:Cvt and is more or less covered with woolly, grey hairs and silvery to rust-coloured star-shaped hairs. The leaves are densely crowded on short branches, wedge-shaped to heart-shaped, Шаблон:Cvt long and densely covered with star-shaped hairs. The flowers are borne singly on the ends of branchlets with five scaly bracts at the base. The petals are yellow, broadly elliptical, Шаблон:Cvt long and covered with star-shaped hairs on the back. Flowering occurs from September to December.[1][2][3][4]
Taxonomy
Asterolasia phebalioides was first formally described in 1854 by Ferdinand von Mueller and the description was published in Transactions of the Philosophical Society of Victoria.[5][6]
