Small, spreading shrub with reddish, silky-haired new shoots. Leaves ovate to elliptic, 1-3 cm long, 0.5-1 cm wide, silky-hairy below. Flowers solitary or in clusters of up to 6 flowers in the leaf axils, about 1 cm wide, petals white, hairy; winter. Fruit whitish with dark spots.

Also A. inophloia (J. Bail. &C.White) Burret and the cultivar A 'Aurora' PVJ 9(3)17.

Qld, NSW.

Source: Spencer, R. (2002). Myrtaceae. In: Spencer, R.. Horticultural Flora of South-eastern Australia. Volume 3. Flowering plants. Dicotyledons. Part 2. The identification of garden and cultivated plants. University of New South Wales Press.