Asterolasia squamuligera Benth.

Slender woody perennial to 50 cm high. Leaves sessile to prominently petiolate, narrowly to broadly obovate, 10–20 mm long, leathery, sparsely stellate or glabrous. Umbels terminal and axillary, sessile, 5–10-flowered; pedicels slender, to 15 mm long. Petals elliptic, c. 6 mm long, yellow, covered with flat fimbriate scales abaxially. Stamens c. 10, glabrous; anthers 0.9 mm long, with minute terminal gland. Carpels 2 (or 3), covered with peltate scales; style glabrous; stigma lobes thick, recurved. Fruit not seen.

Grows in loam, often over laterite.