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Asterolasia elegans is a species of slender, erect shrub that is endemic to a restricted area of New South Wales. It has dense, woolly, rusty star-shaped hairs on its stems, lance-shaped leaves densely covered with white and rust-coloured hairs on the lower surface, and white flowers arranged singly or in groups of up to nine in leaf axils or on the ends of branchlets, the back of the petals densely covered with woolly, white hairs.
This species grows in moist places on hillsides in forests north of Sydney.
Star Bush · Asterolasia beckersii · Asterolasia buckinghamii · Asterolasia buxifolia · Asterolasia correifolia · Gairdner Range Starbush · Asterolasia grandiflora · Asterolasia hexapetala · Lemon Star Bush · Asterolasia nivea · Asterolasia pallida · Downy starbush
Text excerpted from the Wikipedia article Asterolasia elegans by its contributors, under CC BY-SA 4.0; the excerpts are shared under the same licence.
Life form, climate and native range: World Checklist of Vascular Plants, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew (CC BY 3.0), reformatted; see Plants of the World Online.
