''Asterolasia rivularis'' is a small, upright shrub, with narrow leaves and yellow flowers. It has a restricted distribution in New South Wales.

Description

''Asterolasia rivularis'' is a small shrub to high with young branches covered in brown to grey star-shaped, short matted hairs. The leaves may be narrowly oblong, narrow-oblong to wedge shaped and tapering at the base, long, wide. The leaf upper surface has occasional star-shaped hairs, underside brownish star-shaped to short matted hairs, margins slightly rolled under and narrowing to a short petiole. The flowers are either borne from leaf axils or at the end of branches in small clusters of 1-3, yellow petals about long, upper surface with rusty star-shaped to short matted hairs. The

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are up to long when in flower. Flowering occurs in early spring.

Taxonomy

The species was first formally described by Paul G. Wilson in 1998 and the description was published in the journal '' Nuytsia''.

Distribution and habitat

''Asterolasia rivularis'' has a restricted distribution, it is found growing along streams near Buxton.

References

{{Taxonbar, from=Q15387671 rivularis Flora of New South Wales Sapindales of Australia Taxa named by Paul Graham Wilson