Elaeocarpaceae

Small shrub. Flowers 4(rarely 5)-merous with 8(10) stamens. Tetratheca
Stems terete or ridged not winged
Sepals deciduous. Pedicels not glandular-hirsute. Leaves usually whorled, sometimes alternate (opposite on some branches of T. shiressii).
Branches not dimorphic
Leaves linear, with revolute margins
Leaves mostly alternate, linear, up to 15 mm long, with stiff greyish hairs especially towards the revolute margin. Branchlets and pedicels covered with greyish antrorse hairs. Sepals glabrous or with some scattered simple hairs. Petals 6–15 mm long. Ovary glabrous or pubescent; ovules 1 per loculus. Erect or ascending undershrub. Blue Mts; Hornsby Plateau. DSF. Ss. Fl. spring–summer Tetratheca decora